July 04, 2008	Friday	Jamadi-us-Sani 29, 1429

HYDERABAD, July 3: A meeting of lawyers has called upon PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari to checkmate President Perverz Musharraf by reinstating the judges.

The idea was floated by President Sindh High Court Bar Association Hyderabad Chapter, Abdul Sattar Kazi, while addressing a joint general body of the HCBA and Hyderabad District Bar Association in the bar room of civil courts here on Thursday. Lawyers had boycotted courts on the call of Pakistan Bar Council and Supreme Court Bar Association in protest against delay in reinstatement of the deposed judges.

Mr Kazi said participation of lawyers would be ensured in July 19, convention as they would not leave any stone unturned for the reinstatement of deposed judges. He said the lawyers’ movement was being appreciated all over the world and supported.

The HDBA Secretary Nisar Durrani said the lawyers’ movement would continue till the restoration of November 2, 2007 judiciary as they were ready to render sacrifices against dictators.

Zahoo A. Baloch, Sultan Sheikh, Aurangzeb Talpur, Abdul Jabbar Behlai, Hussain Bux Thebo.

Later, lawyers wearing black armbands and raising slogans in support of deposed chief justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, took out a rally. In Mirpurkhas, lawyers boycotted court proceedings in protest against the delay in reinstatement of deposed judges.

District Bar Association members in Umerkot, also, boycotted court proceedings.