ISLAMABAD: Despite an objection by the Supreme Court, the protesters of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) continued to dry clothes by spreading them on the boundary wall of the apex court.

Judges of the Supreme Court on Monday had remarked that the boundary wall of the court, where people came to get justice, was being used by protesters to hang their clothes.

Both the Supreme Court and the Islamabad High Court (IHC) during Monday’s hearings had directed the local administration to clear the Constitution Avenue to provide access to parliamentarians and judges to the Parliament House and Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, PAT organisers tried to convince the participants of the sit-in to vacate one side of the Constitution Avenue but it could not get the entire avenue cleared.

People sitting on the greenbelts outside the Parliament House and Supreme Court remained adamant. The protesters, however, said they had no other place to dry their clothes other than the court’s fence.

Published in Dawn, August 27th, 2014