Khosa slams arrest of protesting lawyers

PTI leader claims they were rounded up inside LHC

LAHORE:

PTI leader Sardar Latif Khosa on Thursday hit out at the government for arresting lawyers protesting outside the Lahore High Court in early May against the relocation of civil courts and registration of terrorism cases against them.

“Today I would like to speak only as a lawyer,” Khosa said at a meeting of the general house of the high court bar.

It has never happened in history that an armored vehicle came inside the high court and arrested lawyers,” he claimed.

“Who dares to file terrorism cases against lawyers?”

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Khosa also said Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa should not have written to British High Commissioner Jane Marriott.

The letter was in response to the British high commissioner stressing the “importance of democracy, elections and need for open societies”.

It pointed out that the diplomat’s criticism of decision was ‘unjustified’.

The PTI leader urged the CJP not make a mockery of himself in the world.

He added that his party’s review petition in allotting back its electoral symbol of the cricket bat was still pending.

“You [the CJP] could have written a letter on a pending case.”