SCBA’s plea to political parties

Published December 7, 2007

LAHORE, Dec 6: The Supreme Court Bar Association has asked all political parties to agree on one-point agenda of restoration of judiciary before going to elections.

SCBA Secretary Muhammad Amin Javed, vice president Ghulam Nabi Bhatti and others told a news conference “unless the judiciary was restored, neither fair polls nor democracy could return to the country.”

To a question regarding lawyers strategy in case political parties did not accede to their demand of judiciary’s restoration, Bhatti said first they wanted to see the response of the political parties’.

He said the SCBA had planned to visit all foreign ambassadors in order to apprise them of the country’s affairs. To a question, he said SCBA would take the cases of lawyers, appearing before the judges, who took oath under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO), to the Pakistan Bar Council to have their licenses revoked.

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