KARACHI, June 11: Another meeting of lawyers’ representatives would be held in Islamabad on June 28 to discuss measures to counter ‘government moves’ to foil their struggle against the Legal Framework Order, three members of Sindh Bar Council said here on Wednesday.
Addressing a press conference in the SBC office, Mohammad Sadiq Khoso, Sadiq Hidayatullah and Ismail Memon said the meeting would also release a white paper on the superior judiciary, which had been compiled by Pakistan Bar Council member Yusuf Leghari. The conference was to be addressed by SBC vice-chairman Yasin Azad and executive committee chairman Mustafa Lakhani but, according the members, they could not return from Lahore well in time.
The SBC members, who attended the June 9 convention in Islamabad, condemned the Supreme Court decision to seal the SC Bar Association office in the apex court premises. They also deplored the Lahore Bar Association invitation to President Pervez Musharraf. The SBC had received no grant for the last five years but had not thought of inviting any government functionary.
They described a Lahore High Court judgment upholding the president’s decision to retain the army chief’s office as ‘unlawful and unconstitutional’. The Bar would hold its own trial in Lahore in which lawyers from Sindh would act as prosecutors, they said.
The SBC members said lawyers would continue their struggle even if the opposition parties reached a compromise with the government over the LFO.
