Punjab

Bar Association: ‘President, PM and army chief must go’

LHCBA says govt has humiliated Pakistanis with its attitude.

Express May 07, 2011

LAHORE:

The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) passed a resolution on Friday which demanded the resignation of the president, the prime minister, the chief of army staff, the director general (DG) of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the DG of military intelligence (MI), and the interior minister for their ‘failure’ to protect the sovereignty of Pakistan when the US conducted its operation against Osama Laden.

Through another resolution, the LHCBA demanded court martial of the chief of army staff, the DG ISI, and the DG of military intelligence, accusing them of criminal negligence in their duty to defend the borders of the nation.

The resolutions were passed unanimously at the general house meeting of the bar on Friday under the chairmanship of LHCBA president Asghar Ali Gill.

The resolution against the US operation was moved by Barrister Zafar Ullah. Gill, former LHCBA president Ahmed Awais, former secretary Supreme Court Bar Association Raja Zulqarnain, Advocates Muhammad Sharif Chohan and Sultan Mehmood Khan and many others addressed the meeting and condemned the US operation in Abbotabad.

They expressed deep concern at the failure of the Pakistan Army and the intelligence agencies to timely learn about the US armed operation in Abottabad in close proximity of the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul and the restricted site of the Kahuta nuclear plant.

Zulqarnain said the country had been left at the mercy of the US commandos and gunship helicopters who, without any fear, toyed with the territorial sovereignty of the country.

Gill said Pakistan was a large nuclear-weapon state and the people of the country had great expectation from the armed forces. These hopes, he said, had been shattered by the US attack in Abbottabad.

He said it seemed that the president, the prime minister and the chief of army staff were acting out of some fear and avoiding a confrontation with the US. He said government and the army chief had humiliated Pakistanis by their compromising attitude which is nothing other than cowardice.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 7^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (13)

Patriot | 13 years ago | Reply These lawyers would love judicial dictatorship. It will give them a free hand to do everything under the sun!

Sultan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply Unity and consensus is essential to getting out of existing horrible crisis. Do you agree with me?

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Sultan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply What is the real resolve of a super power, vide the history of Iraq,it was alleged it had weapons of mass destruction, now being said,all remaining terrorists are in Pakistan, just like osama.

Sultan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply You are invited to think, what kind of time is going to come.

Sultan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply Drone attacks are not acceptable, any other military action that would be against our sovereignty would also be not acceptable, but both have done respectively, what kind of agreement going on behind the scene.

Sultan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply If you will do no more, we will do more and more. wait our decision.

Sultan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply National media trial this case every day, live long media,long live media. independence of media is great gift of former president Musharraff..

Sultan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply American are dutiful, American are brave, look, they entered into a sovereign state made action and took a requisite person and buried in raging ocean. And on the other hand, whole leadership was enjoining intoxicating leadership.

Sultan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply We must depend on our own sources, never depend on other sources, war on terror was not our war, but through a diplomacy which was based on hypocrisy it was made of ours. It is the result of good leadership?

Sultan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply lawyer community rightly understand and demanded for. Negligence is not tolerable in the matter of national interests. High risk rama was played putting every thing aside.

Sultan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply the whole scenario has become sign of interrogation before the nation.

Sultan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply Negligence in this connection is not understandable.

Sultan Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply The government,once again has provide a chance to the nation to see existing civil and military leader ship with hateful eyes. No doubt, there is very tough question before them that where they were gone, foreign military operation had been going on for 40 minutes inside the country,near the military academy. Whether Inter Servicing Intelligence Agency,that is very important organization of the states and other agencies like that were sleeping the whole night. In case, that is true,it mean they committed a criminal negligence for which they are accountable.

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