HYDERABAD, July 21: Activists of different political parties and lawyers continued celebrations across the province to express their jubilation over the reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on the second consecutive day on Saturday.

They staged rallies, distributed sweets, offered thanksgiving prayers and danced to national sings on the roads and in the court premises to give vent to their feelings.

In Hyderabad lawyers staged a rally, which was later joined by the activists of People’s Party Parliamentarians, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal.

MPA Abdul Rehman Rajput, PPP’s Zahid Bhurgri, JI's Sheikh Shaukat, PTI's Dr Abdul Samad Sheikh, MMA Abdul Waheed Qureshi, Taj Mohammad Nahiyoon garlanded lawyers outside the press club.

Jubilant lawyers danced to Sindhi folk tunes also played national songs at high pitch while raising full throated slogans in support of chief justice.

The bar leaders said that their struggle would continue against the military dictatorship till the restoration of true democracy in the country.

ANP leaders said that the party workers had contributed their blood to the lawyers’ struggle. Now they had to win independence of parliament and workers should prepare themselves, they said.

Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palejo described the verdict as historic and said that it was a victory of the downtrodden people over military bureaucracy and their terrorist collaborators.

The verdict had proved that all the decisions and steps taken by present regime were unconstitutional and illegal and implied that the present government’s rule over the country, too, was unconstitutional, he said.

Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party (STP) Chairman Dr Qadir Magsi said that chief justice of Pakistan should take suo motu notice of May 12 bloodshed in Karachi and ensure justice to the heirs of people who lost their lives at the hands of terrorists.

He said that the democratic, nationalist and enlightened forces must cash in on this opportunity for ending military's role in politics, supremacy of law and constitution.

Lawyers in Jacobabad, Sanghar, Khipro, Shahdadpur, Tando Adam, Nawabshah, Thatta, Shikarpur, Dadu, Khairpur Nathan Shah, Mehar, Johi and Mirpurkhas staged rallies and procession and offered thanksgiving prayers to express their joy at the SC verdict.