Deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that lawyers' struggle has reached its final phase and its fruits will reach the common man soon. He praised the lawyers' struggle, and lauded sacrifices of lawyers of Sindh.
"The lawyers' movement, which started 14 months back, is close to victory. The movement has no other aim but the rule of law and the supremacy of the Constitution," he said. He was addressing the lawyers at Justice Chaudhry Hall in civil court here on telephone on Friday.
He said: "We want such society where justice is supreme, and quoted Hazrat Ali that "we can live with Kufr (infidels), but cannot live without justice Chaudhry Iftikhar said it was not necessary that only the Supreme Court or the high courts could dispense justice, but administration as well as lower courts could give it.
He said: "We should create such an atmosphere in which people feel that the society they are living will not have to pay the price for getting justice." He lauded the efforts of lawyers and judges, who were trying to provide justice to people and for that purpose they had started the movement. "Now the fruits of this movement have started to reach the people.
He claimed that 160 million people backed the lawyers' struggle, and thanked the lawyers of Hyderabad and other districts of Sindh, who had assembled to hear him. He saluted them, saying that the creator of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah was also lawyer, who believed in the rule of law. He hoped that lawyers' struggle would help make the country more strong.
Besides, President of High Court Bar, Hyderabad, Kazi Abdul Sattar; President of Hyderabad District Bar Association Chaudhry Bashir Gujjar; President of Mirpurkhas District Bar Salahuddin Pahanwar, Anwer Mahmood from Sanghar, Ali Muhammad Daheri from Nawabshah, Mukhtar Junejo of Malir Bar; President of Karachi Bar Association Mahmoodul Hassan, Imam Bux Baloch from Tando Adam, Anwer Nizamani and Naheed Afzal from Karachi also addressed the gathering.