PTI lawyers slams ILF cabinet overhaul

PESHAWAR:

Senior members of the Insaf Lawyers Forum (ILF) in Peshawar have rejected the newly formed cabinet and its selection process, announcing their intention to resist it.

According to the members, senior lawyers were completely ignored during the reorganization of the Peshawar district cabinet, a move they say contradicts the principles of justice.

The emergency meeting of ILF senior members was held Thursday at the District Court Bar Room, where prominent lawyers including Mohammad Habib Qureshi, Nishar Khan, Jahangir Khan, Saeed Afridi, Shahnawaz, Arshad Khan, Tariq Ehsan, Usman Turlandi, and Anwar Zeb addressed the forum. They expressed serious concerns over the forum's poor performance and called for a complete restructuring of the party's legal wing.

The speakers stated that they would not accept a cabinet dominated by parachute candidates, land-grabbers, or individuals lacking integrity. Their aim, they said, is to ensure justice and give full representation to senior party members. They criticized the current state of ILF Peshawar, describing it as plagued by internal discord, weak decision-making, and unserious administrative policies. Senior lawyers, they said, are being denied their rightful positions, while merit and democratic processes are being ignored.

They emphasized that the ILF Action Committee will strongly defend these rights, pledging to fight for the survival of the forum and strengthen it nationwide. "If the party had empowered its legal forum, the founder of PTI, Imran Khan, would not be in jail today," they noted.

The forum decided to raise these concerns directly with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and other party leaders. They also demanded that eligible and senior members be nominated for Pakistan Bar Council elections from K-P, and that an executive committee be formed alongside the current ILF leadership to distribute the forum's authority among senior lawyers across the country.