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| March 15, 2002 | Friday | Zilhaj 30, 1422 |
PBC to move SC against ban on political activities
ISLAMABAD, March 14: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) have decided to move the Supreme Court to get the ban on political activities lifted.
The apex body of legal practitioners made this decision at its emergency meeting in Lahore on Tuesday.
A constitutional petition, challenging the ban on political activities, would be prepared and filed in the SC by a special committee, comprising H. Shakil Ahmed, Farooq H. Naek, Hamid Khan and Qazi Mohammad Jamil.
The PBC reiterated its stance of opposing the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance, 2002, and adopted a resolution, passed on the subject at an All Pakistan Lawyers Representative’s meeting, held on March 9 in Lahore.
The council disapproved of the recent appointments of five judges in the Lahore High Court on the ground that those were violative of the recent appointments of the quota of lawyers and also against the principle of seniority among session judges.
The meeting decided that the appointments would be challenged in the apex court.
The PBC called upon the lawyers’ community to observe a strike to condemn what it called the genocide of Indian Muslims in Gujarat and other parts of India, the atrocities being committed against the civilians in Palestine and the fresh air strikes by the US in Afghanistan, causing numerous deaths.
The lawyers’ body demanded withdrawal of the US and other countries’ armed forces from Pakistan.
Lawyers will observe a strike throughout the country on March 21 from 12am to 1pm and will hold protest meetings at the offices of their bar associations.
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