KARACHI, April 19: “Lawyers are protesting because the treatment meted out to Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry is simply intolerable,” Sindh High Court Bar Association President Abrar Hasan said at a full court reference held on Thursday to bid farewell to Justice Zawwar Hussain Jaffery on the eve of his retirement.

He said he was conscious that frequent boycott of proceedings was causing hardship to the public but it must be realised that the CJ’s humiliation and confinement were aimed at destroying the institution of judiciary.

The reference was also addressed by SHC Chief Justice Sabihuddin Ahmed, Deputy Attorney-General Akhter Ali Mahmud, Advocate-General Anwar Mansoor Khan, Sindh Bar Council Vice-Chairman Amin Lakhani and Karachi Bar Association President Iftikhar Javed Qazi.

Lawyers’ convention: The Sindh Bar Council (SBC) will hold a Sindh lawyers’ convention of elected members of respective bar associations at the premises of Sindh High Court here on April 22 at 10am.

According to Vice Chairman of the SBC Mohammad Amin Lakhani, former Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui, Mr Justice (r) Nasir Aslam Zahid, Mr Justice (r) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim and other retired judges would express their views on the occasion.

He said president of SCBA will also attend the convention. He expressed hope that the convention would be another milestone in the lawyers’ struggle for the establishment of supremacy of law.