Ex-servicemen support lawyers

Published March 13, 2008

ISLAMABAD, March 12: The Pakistan Ex-Servicemen Society (PESS) has supported the lawyers’ stand on the judicial issue and terming Pervez Musharraf as only a defacto president asked him to immediately step down. “Let the new president be elected by the new set of assemblies being inducted,” the meeting stressed.

A member of the society’s central working committee also said that it would take “appropriate measures to make him quit and be accountable if he continued to flout the popular will of the people.”

It said: The meeting has urged Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar to act in accordance with the aspirations of the lawyers’ community.—Reporter

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