PESHAWAR, Sept 27: Frontier Lawyers urged MMA leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman and NWFP Chief Minister Akram Durrani on Thursday to dissolve the provincial assembly and warned that they would besiege the assembly building on Oct 6 to prevent its members from casting vote in the presidential election.

The lawyers observed a complete strike in response to a call of Lawyers’ Action Committee against the filing of nomination papers by General Pervez Musharraf. They did not appear in any of the courts in the provincial capital.

A joint general body meeting of the Peshawar High Court and the Peshawar District Bar Association was held, followed by a protest demonstration.

The meeting was presided over by PHCBA’s president Abdul Lateef Afridi and addressed by Peshawar District Bar Association president Maulana Shamsul Haq, Qazi Mohammad Anwer, Abdul Hakeem Kundi, Sattar Khan, Barrister Baachha and Nek Nawaz Khan.

The meeting adopted a resolution urging Maulana Fazl and Chief Minister Durrani to support the lawyers’ movement for the supremacy of the Constitution and to dissolve the NWFP Assembly before Oct 6, the date fixed for the presidential poll.

If their demand was not met, they warned, they would lay siege to the provincial assembly on Sept 6.

They decided to approach the chief minister to persuade him to advice the governor to dissolve the assembly.

They said that the lawyers would adopt all legal, constitutional and political means to prevent re-election of General Musharraf.

They said that they succeeded in their movement to get Chief Justice of Pakistan reinstated and with people’s support, they would also emerge victorious in the current movement.

The meeting resolved that Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmad was the consensus candidate of the lawyers’ community and he would be invited to address the Peshawar High Court Bar.

They resolved to accord a historic welcome to Justice Wajih like the one given to Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.