ISLAMABAD, May 1: Deputy Attorney General Chaudhry Afrasiab Khan, who represented the government in the Supreme Court in the missing persons’ case, resigned on Tuesday, on the eve of the Supreme Judicial Council’s hearing in the presidential reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

“Yes I have submitted my resignation to the law minis-try,” Chaudhry Afrasiab told Dawn.

He said he was a professional lawyer who had also served as the president of the Rawalpindi High Court Bar Association. He said he had also been associated with the Punjab Bar Council and Chakwal District Bar Association in different capacities and, therefore, it had been difficult for him to represent the government in the missing persons’ case.

“My friends with whom I started my professional career were not happy over my appointment as the DAG, especially in the present peculiar circumstances,” he said.

Chaudhry Afrasiab replaced DAG Raja Muhammad Irshad to represent the government in the missing persons’ case after Raja Irshad was transferred to Rawalpindi on April 25.