MARDAN, Dec 8: A meeting of the Mardan District Bar Association on Saturday unanimously passed a resolution, demanding a boycott of elections. It constituted a 12-member committee to contact people belonging to different walks of life to drum up their support for the restoration of the pre-Nov 3 judiciary.

The meeting, held at the DBA offices here on Saturday, was presided over by DBA President Khan Ghawas Khan advocate.

The new committee will contact teachers, journalists, doctors, traders and students to mobilise them to support the lawyers’ struggle against the ‘unconstitutional and illegal’ rule of Gen Pervez Musharraf in the country.

The lawyers resolved that their main objective was to continue their struggle for the restoration of the Constitution, reinstatement of the deposed judges of the superior courts, lifting of emergency rule and repeal of the Army Act.

The meeting also asked lawyers having affiliations with political and religious parties to prevail upon their leaderships to stay away from the January elections.

The meeting decided that the lawyers who had submitted their nomination papers would withdraw their candidatures as they did not support the emergency rule and considered the judges who had taken the oath under the Provisional Constitution Order to be illegitimate.