June 12, 2003	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 11, 1424

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ISLAMABAD, June 11: Lawyers on Wednesday threatened to remove the seals on the Supreme Court Bar Association’s offices on their own if the Supreme Court administration did not do so within the next “two, three days.”

This was said by chairman of the SCBA’s executive committee Mohamad Kazim Khan while speaking at a press conference in the premises of the Supreme Court.

Mr Khan said in a telephonic conversation with the registrar of the Supreme Court, he had conveyed that the Bars’ struggle was not against any person but on principles.

Mr Khan was accompanied by Sadaqat Ali Mirza, SCBA’s finance secretary, Chaudhry Ikram, ex-president of LHC, Rawalpindi Bench Bar Association, Raja Rab Nawaz, vice president of SCBA from Balochistan, and Aziz Malik, member of the SCBA’s executive committee.

Kazim Khan said while the Bar’s protest had been peaceful, lawyers might be compelled to take sterner measures in the wake of the Supreme Court’s aggressive actions.

Chaudhry Ikram and Sadaqat Ali Mirza expressed the lawyers’ community’s resentment against the sealing of the SCBA’s offices, saying the lawyers would continue to express their point of view.

Dispelling the impression that the struggle for the revival of the constitution was harming democracy, they said it was a bid to mislead the people.