January 21, 2006	Saturday	Zilhaj 20, 1426

KARACHI, Jan 20: The Sindh High Court Bar Association held a meeting of its managing committee to mark the lawyers’ protest day against the wanton attack by US aircraft on civilians in Bajaur Agency.

The meeting, held under the chairmanship of Advocate M. Ilyas Khan, reiterated its demand that the issue be agitated in the United Nations.

Urging the lawyers’ organizations to take up the matter with the foreign ministry, the association said Article 39 of the UN Charter should be invoked as the air strike threatened Pakistan’s territorial integrity and political independence and state sovereignty.

It emphasized that Article 2 (4) of the charter enjoins upon all member states to ‘refrain in their international relations from threat or use of force’. The attak violated the provision and other norms of international relations and the government must treat the matter as of urgent importance, the resolution said.