LAHORE, Feb 4: The Lahore High Court Bar Association has demanded the government should cut diplomatic relations with Denmark in protest against the publication of blasphemous cartoon and raise the matter in the International Court of Justice.

Bar president Fakharun Nisa Khokhar and members voiced the demand at a press conference here on Saturday. They announced establishment of the All-Pakistan Women Lawyers Association and nomination of Ms Khokhar as its interim president by consensus. They said Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry would be the patron of the association to be run by an advisory board comprising Shamsa Ali, Ghazala Khan, Gulshan Ara, Rukhsana Tabassum, Shabana Nadeem, Angela Marks, Siddiqa Altaf, Tabinda Islam, Huma Hameed Khan, Imrana Baloch, Firdaus Butt and Iffat Raza. They said the association would struggle for equal rights for women in all walks of life and adequate representation in judiciary.