SUKKUR Feb 26: Lawyers of Sindh have urged federal and Punjab governments to refrain from unconstitutionally and unlawfully keep lawyers and honorable judges under house arrest.

Addressing a joint press conference in the Bar room of the Sukkur bench of the Sindh High Court on Monday, president of the Sukkur High Court Bar Association Imdad Ali Awan and general secretary Ghulam Shabbir Shar warned that illegal actions would not be tolerated and hoped that the new governments in the centre and the provinces would retract all such unlawful acts.

They also warned that if the deposed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary, the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Chaudhary Aitzaz Ahsan, member of the Pakistan Bar Council from Balochistan Ali Ahmed Kurd, justice (retd) Tariq Mehmood and other honourable judges of the Supreme Court and high courts were not released within a week, the lawyers all over the country would start an agitation campaign by staging hunger strikes and courting arrests.

They also appealed to lawyers to prepare for the agitation drive.