KARACHI, March 5: Five Bar representatives have urged Justice M. Ashraf Laghari of the Sindh High Court to lay down his robes on attaining the age of 62 on Thursday.

In a letter addressed to Justice Laghari on Wednesday, Pakistan Bar Council members Rashid A. Razvi, Abul Inam and Abdul Haleem Pirzada, Sindh Bar Council Vice-Chairman M. Yasin Azad and Sindh High Court Bar Association President Munir A. Malik, said lawyers all over the country have rejected the Legal Framework Order, which extends the retirement age of superior court judges by three years.

By retiring on Thursday, they told the judge, he “will be upholding the supremacy of the 1973 Constitution and take an honourable place among the members of the legal fraternity, to which he will again belong on his retirement.”