March 28, 2007	Wednesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 8, 1428

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BAHAWALPUR, March 27: Lawyers have urged the judges from Bahawalpur working with the Lahore High Court to go on leave for a month to join lawyers’ protest against the suspension of the chief justice of Pakistan.

Bahawalpur High Court Bar Association President Malik Saeed Ijaz told a meeting of the association’s general body on Tuesday he would write to LHC judges from Bahawalpur to show solidarity with lawyers by observing leave.

Advocate Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed had proposed to send letters to judges for leave. The meeting was convened for the address of Supreme Court Bar Association President Munir A Malik but he failed to arrive in Bahawalpur.

The bar president said Mr Malik was in Karachi and could not arrive here because the national airlines denied him a ticket for Multan.

Tahir Mufti, Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) member, told the meeting in the future, strikes only called by the PbBC would be followed.

The meeting through a resolution decided that lawyers would attend courts by wearing black arm bands regularly viewing the inconvenience of their litigants.

PPP WORKERS: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders have demanded the release of activists arrested during the recent protest rallies across the country.

PPP leader Khan Muhammad Hussain Azad in a statement alleged that several PPP workers in Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar and Rahim Yar Khan had been picked up from their houses.

HATE LITERATURE: District Police Officer Arif Nawaz has directed his subordinates to seize hate literature and arrest those publishing or dishing out such material. Presiding over a ulema meeting in connection with Eid Milad, Mr Nawaz reviewed security measures and the routes of processions.