June 03, 2007	Sunday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 17, 1428

JHANG, June 2: Judges and lawyers have agreed to call off strike and a formal announcement to this effect will be made by Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) member Tanveer Randhawa at the general house meeting of Jhang District Bar Association on Monday. Judges and lawyers went on strike on Wednesday after a judge refused to release a Shorkot lawyer’s brother which enraged lawyers.

Mr Randhawa is the member of a two-member reconciliatory committee, mandated Jhang and Shorkot bars to negotiate with judges to end the standoff.

Qalandar Husain Bhatti, a PbBC member from Shorkot is the other member of the committee, which held discussions with the judges to convince them to end their strike. Chaudhry Khalid Pervaiz, a former PbBC member, told Dawn an overwhelming majority of DBA members were extremely unhappy with the confrontation and welcomed the end of the stalemate. He said the district and sessions judge would visit the Jhang bar.