LAHORE: A group of lawyers on Saturday held a demonstration at the courtyard of the Lahore High Court Bar Association endorsing the ongoing protest activities of the PTI and PAT.

Advocate Abdul Rasheed Qureshi of the Save Judiciary Committee organized the demonstration. The participants chanted slogans against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his party.

They said that all capitalists and feudalists joined hands to protect the rotten system in the name of democracy.

They said Imran Khan and Dr Tahirul Qadri were fighting for the rights of common people of the country.

Published in Dawn, August 24th, 2014

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