LONDON, March 9: A group of 100-strong protesters held a vociferous two-hour demonstration in front of the Pakistan High Commission here on Sunday in solidarity with the black flag week being observed throughout Pakistan to commemorate the day Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry refused to accept General Pervez Musharraf’s orders.

The demonstrators included lawyers, doctors, media person, civil society activists, workers and leaders of the PPP, PML-N and students of Pakistan origin with sprinkling of non-Asian sympathisers of the movement in Pakistan to get the ousted superior judiciary restored.

The black flag waving demonstrators were being led by solicitor Sibghatullah Kadri QC, Ghous Ali Shah of PML-N and Mr Munib of the lawyers’ movement.

The demonstrators kept chanting ‘Go Musharraf Go’, Release the judges from house-arrest and reinstate them.

Ghous Ali Shah and Mr Kadri in their speeches welcomed the signing of the power-sharing accord between the PPP and PML-N.

They also paid rich tribute to Iftikhar Chaudhry and other incarcerated judges and expressed complete solidarity with the ongoing movement of the bar and the bench for independence of the judiciary.

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