LAHORE, March 7: The Lahore High Court Bar Association on Friday threatened that it would cancel the membership of National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Ameer Hussain if he gave any further ruling on the LFO without its ratification by a two-third majority of the Parliament.

Speaking at a press conference, LHCBA president Hafiz Abdul Rehman Ansari termed it peculiar that the speaker was declaring the LFO as part of the 1973 Constitution without its ratification by the parliament.

Mr Ansari further claimed that he would ask lawyers not to recognise the chief justice of Pakistan and Justice Qazi Farooq as judges of the Supreme Court if they did not quit their offices by Saturday in accordance with the original law regarding the age of retirement.

He said Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali had no authority to invite the opposition for talks on the LFO or claim that it had become part of the Constitution. “Had the LFO become part of the Constitution, there would have been no need for holding talks on it with the opposition,” he said.

The LHCBA president alleged that the prime minister had made the Constitution controversial by declaring LFO as its part.

Lawyers had rejected the LFO and would not allow the prime minister to hold talks on such controversial documents, he claimed.

He also highlighted LHCBA’s line of action for the protest against extension of CJ’s services under the LFO. He disclosed that Saturday would be observed as the Black Day, a meeting of the bar convened to condemn the three-year extension of judges’ services and a black flag hoisted on the building of LHCBA as a mark of protest.