February 22, 2008	Friday	Safar 14, 1429

SIALKOT, Feb 21: Lawyers in various city-districts and other parts of the province continued their weekly agitation on Thursday to express solidarity with deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and other judges.

In Sialkot, scores of District Bar Association members boycotted courts and lashed out at the Musharraf-led regime. They described the Feb 18 polling as a referendum against President Pervez Musharraf and the PML-Q, urging him to hang up his boots now. They conveyed a similar message to Chaudhry Shujaat Husain and demanded restoration of the supreme judiciary.

At a meeting, presided over by DBA President Arshad Mahmood Baggu, the lawyers passed several anti-Musharraf and anti-PML-Q resolutions and said “Feb 18 was a day of the public judgment against Musharraf and the former ruling party.”

Protests were held also in Daska, Pasrur, Shakargarh and Narowal.

GUJRANWALA: Protest demonstration and meetings on the call of the Punjab Bar Council adopted a unanimous resolution which called for immediate release of the deposed judges, including Iftikhar Chaudhry.

A march took place from the district courts to Gondlanwala Chowk, raising slogans against the government.

The lawyers took to the street in good numbers in Bahawalpur, Sahiwal, Khanewal and other parts of Punjab.