The representatives of the Lahore High Court Bar Association here on Tuesday demanded resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and said the prime minister has left with no moral justification except stepping down after the adverse report of JIT. While addressing the media persons, Vice Chairman Pakistan Bar Council Ahsan Bhoon said the PM should go home in a dignified manner by resigning from the office.
He said Nawaz Sharif had himself in an address to the nation announced to step down if the Supreme Court made commission or investigating team declaring him guilty of the charges. The LHCBA office-bearers giving another seven-day ultimatum to PM Sharif vowed to launch a countrywide lawyers' movement if the prime minister failed to resign within one week.
Bar's President Ch Zulfiqar Ali also demanded the authorities to put the names of whole Sharif family on Exit Control List. He said the report of the JIT proved the view of lawyers true that the Prime Minster was not honest and righteous. He said the members of the JIT did a great job by declaring the ruling Sharif family guilty of corruption.
He also hailed the Supreme Court's decision of summoning record of threatening speeches by the government ministers and ordered an FIR against SECP Chairman Zafar Hijazi. Ch Zulfiqar also advised the ministers to act like public representatives instead of part of the Sharif family.
He further told media persons that the National Action Committee of lawyers would meet next week to device strategy for the countrywide movement against the Prime Minister. SCBA President Rasheed A Rizvi and Secretary Aftab Ahmad Bajwa were also scheduled to join the press conference however they could not reach in time. The SCBA and LHCBA also threatened a 2007-like lawyers' movement against him.
Talking to media persons, Secretary SCBA Aftab Ahmad Bajwa endorsed the announcements made by the LHCBA. He also demanded that all family members of Nawaz Sharif should be arrested forthwith as report of the JIT declared them guilty of corruption.