March 31, 2007	Saturday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 11, 1428

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ISLAMABAD, March 30: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) has finalised a plan to hold protest demonstration outside the Supreme Court building on April 3 when Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will appear before the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC).

Talking to Dawn here on Friday, PPP information secretary Sherry Rehman said party president Makhdoom Amin Fahim would lead the protest rally in Islamabad and it would be participated by party leaders and MNAs from Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

Ms Rehman said a majority of the party leaders and parliamentarians would not be able to attend the protest rally in Islamabad as they were scheduled to reach Garhi Khuda Bakhsh in Larkana to participate in the programmes to mark the death anniversary of late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto falling on April 4.

She said participation in the death anniversary programmes was an annual feature of the party and every party leader and worker wanted to participate in them.

Ms Rehman said the party believed that the presence of its leadership was also necessary outside the apex court in order to express solidarity with the lawyers who had been struggling for the independence of the judiciary.

Besides Mr Fahim, MNAs Zamarrud Khan, Nayyar Bokhari and herself would be present outside the Supreme Court on the occasion, she added.

Meanwhile, PPP secretary-general Raja Pervez Ashraf also told this newspaper that he was not going to Larkana this year to take part in the protest rally.

Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, who is the counsel for the ‘non- functional’ chief justice and some other lawyers belonging to the PPP would also miss the death anniversary of Mr Bhutto.

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