May 23, 2008	Friday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 17, 1429

FAISALABAD, May 22: The Faisalabad Bar Association has finalised arrangements to accord a warm welcome to the deposed chief justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, who is scheduled to visit the district on Saturday (tomorrow) to address a lawyers’ convention.

Spelling out the arrangements being made by the district bar, FBA President Nasir Ali Gorayya said different committees had been constituted to make the event a success. He said the guests would be received at Motorway from where a rally would lead them to the bar premises.

He said the CJP was scheduled to arrive in the city at 6pm, along with 47 deposed judges, Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan, Justice Tariq Mehmood (retired), Ali Ahmed Kurd and others.

He said PML-N patron Nawaz Sharif and leaders of the All Pakistan Democratic Movement (APDM) had also been invited to the event. To express solidarity with the deposed judges, the FBA had set up a hunger strike camp outside the bar premises.

Punjab Bar Council Member Arshad Ali Warraich said all political parties, students’ associations and civil society had been invited by the FBA to welcome the CJP.

He said leaders and workers of the PPP had also pledged cooperation for the welcome rally.

District bar’s former president Tanvir Randhawa said lawyers were united for the restoration of the judges.