PESHAWAR, July 10: Lawyers on the call of Pakistan Bar Council observed a day-long strike on Thursday in the district and sessions courts and set a deadline of five days for the government to unseal the offices and libraries of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.

The Peshawar High Court Bar Association and the Peshawar District Bar Association held their separate meetings in this connection.

The Peshawar High Court Bar Association in its meeting, presided over by its president Safeerullah Khan, condemned the sealing of the offices and libraries and asked the administration to reopen them forthwith.

Through a unanimously adopted resolution, the association asked the administration to fulfil their demand to avoid a confrontation with the Bar.

The Peshawar District Bar Association’s meeting, held with its President Wakeel Zaman Khattak in the chair, was followed by a protest procession.

The meeting was addressed by Mr Khattak, Ayaz Khan, Muhammad Naeem and others. They condemned the superior judiciary for favouring the government on the LFO issue.

They said the judges had accepted bribe from the military government in the shape of three-year extension in their retirement age. The chief justice of Pakistan had been trying to exert pressure on the Supreme Court Bar Association to discontinue its struggle against the LFO.—Bureau