Pakistan

Jahangir meets Zardari: Bar members divided over meeting

Five members of SCBAP oppose meeting of Asma Jahangir with President Zardari, during a press conference.

Express January 09, 2011

KARACHI: Five members of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan (SCBAP) including Abbas Ali, Khan Afzal Khan, Mian Muhammad Javed, Choudhry Aslam Ghumman and another member, opposed the meeting of their president Asma Jahangir and other office bearers with President Zardari during a press conference at the SCBAP office at Karachi registry.

The President never supported the lawyers’ movement for the independence of the judiciary and hence [Jahangir] should not have met him, said the lawyers. Meanwhile Asma Jahangir also addressed the press at SCBAP office later and said the meeting was purely in the interest of the bar to make it free from financial hitches.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 9^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (5)

Muhammad Saleem Usmani | 13 years ago | Reply Well she wants to become Governor Punjab. So what's the harm. After all the PPP brought her into power.

G.Haider | 13 years ago | Reply She has met the president of her own country,elected through a process as enshrined in the Constitution of Pakistan,and not a president of any enemy,s country or a back door intruder.Difference of opinion should not be allowed to convert into personal enemity or used for mud slinging.

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farhan | 13 years ago | Reply Asma was elected through the efforts of Babar Awan who was distributing money all around.. So not a bit surprised she was advising Zardari on nominating Governor for Punjab Province..

Shout | 13 years ago | Reply I am still hopeful that Asma will remain apolitical, reminding the lawyers that they are, like everybody else, an part of Pakistani society, but they are not the only part.

Shamim Haider | 13 years ago | Reply she has lost all the dignity & reputation she worked so hard and earned over the decade by getting support from corrupt leaders ? one really question? as why she is bent upon destroying her reputation ?????

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