Punjab

Judicial battle continues

The Punjab Bar Council demands that all resignations tendered by lawyers be accepted regardless of withdrawals.

Express October 05, 2010

The Punjab Bar Council is demanding that the resignation of all lower court judges, who withdrew their resignations earlier today, should still be made to resign.

The demand was put forward by the executive chairman of the council, Rana Akram, while addressing a meeting of the council in Lahore today (Tuesday). The council announced that it has decided to boycott the courts till 8th October.

Earlier today, civil judges ended their strike and withdrew their resignations as Justice Zawwar Sheikh, who has been at the center of an ongoing clash between the bench and bar in Lahore, was sent on a four month leave on Tuesday.

Akram announced that lawyers had withdrawn their demand of seeking the resignation of chief justice of Lahore high court, Khawaja Muhammad Sharif.

He also demanded stern action from the government against those police officers who tortured lawyers during their protest rallies.

Courts in Punjab remain closed

Meanwhile, legal proceedings are still not occurring at their regular pace in Faisalabad and other parts of the Punjab province.

Lawyers in the industrial city of Faisalabad are now on their second day of strike following the seeming end of hostilities between judges and lawyers. Although judges are back in courts, lawyers are now on their second day of strike.

Although there were thirteen hundred lower court resignations sent to Lahore's chief justice, none of those came from Faisalabad. However, the lawyers say they are on strike to show solidarity with the lawyers from Lahore, protesting against what they called police brutality.

Meanwhile, lawyers in Multan and other parts of southern Punjab are also not appearing in court today.

COMMENTS (7)

Faisal Hussain | 14 years ago | Reply But the question is that how does just breaking of a glass provides reason to arrest whole lawyer' representative body without even registration of an FIR. and How does it helo to change the reality for declaring all lawyers terrorists and corrupt? Agitation is a pure Constitutional and legal right of every citizen of Pakistan to rise voices against any wrong doings. Please Please 20000 lawyers cannot be held wrong only because electronic and print media is presenting wrong stories. As a matter of fact, lawyers went to Lahore High Court to protest Cj Lhr High Court, for not being honest to his promise of transferring Session Judge Lahore. And when they tried to enter in the Court Room No.1during scuffle with security personal a lawyer (very unfortunately and wrongly) broke a glass of Court Room's door. They never ever went to office of CJ with intention to attack any person or office. There were only 200 lawyers on first day, on Friday police manhandled almost every lawyer present in the court premises by the Punjab Police on the Orders of Khawaja Sharief, and even women lawyers were dragged out of Bathrooms where they went to put water in their ayes to escape Tear Gas burnings. I reiterate that the violent, aggressive and abusive behavior amongst lawyers was wrong in past, wrong in present and would be wrong in future. But please i request all the media and civil society to understand the frustration amongst lawyers for being used during the lawyer's movement and than left unattended by Movement leaders, not only this they feel deprived because people like Hamid Khan and Athar Minallah managed their chambers fellows to be inducted in the higher judiciary. Faisal Hussain Advocate

Abdul Rahman | 14 years ago | Reply Hello there! I think its not time to conquer the Judicial or to conquer the Lawyer,, There is something hidden, just try to explore those things which r creating such kind of atmosphere,,,!

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T. Ali | 14 years ago | Reply Mr S Ali Raza, I am sorry, you think that a Chief Justice should have stepped down, because a tin pot dictator like Musharraf, who usurped the constitution, asked him to go. I am sorry, this is not why Quaid e Azam waged our struggle for liberation. This country was created to be run as a democratic welfare state. It is unfortunate that Ayub Khan started the evil of military rule. If some politicians of ill-repute have committed mistakes, they can be replaced and should be replaced by other democratically elected honest politicians, who unlike Musharraf and some of these dishonest politicians do not have assets abroad, accumulated through corruption. No sovereign country can afford to have men with dual nationalities and split loyalties hold public office, or in the civil or uniformed bureaucracy and be elected to serve in a constitutional post. Our future lies with democracy, independent judiciary, transparent across the board accountabilty and Rule of Law.

Azar Mahmood | 14 years ago | Reply It happened with the Taliban and it has happened with these lawyers. If you allow people to cross all boundaries of law and civility, this is bound to happen. But no surprise here. Where else but in Pakistan are representatives and custodians of law are it's biggest abusers.

S. Ali Raza | 14 years ago | Reply I hope the judiciary and the political parties of the lawyers movement have realized the monster they have created! Now enjoy the fruit. Only if CJ Iftikhar had stepped down peacefully when he was asked to, we wouldn't have to face what we are in now!

Mir Tassadaq | 14 years ago | Reply Why don't the office bearers of the Lahore Bar resign for their misdeeds, instead of demanding that resignations of honest judges be accepted. These unruly mobsters in black coats are a disgrace for the noble profession of lawyers. Lahore bar has become very controversial because of the shameful role of lawyers like Sajid Bashir, Ahmed Owais, Latif Khosa, and others like them.

Babs | 14 years ago | Reply And you lawyers thought that Musharraf was a bad egg! Abb pata chala na bachoo! Long live Defrigginmocracy!

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