PESHAWAR, Jan 10: The Lawyers Action Committee on Thursday called upon their national action committee to continue boycott of superior courts till the restoration of the pre-Nov 3 judiciary and the release of deposed judges and their leaders.

The committee started a three-day boycott of courts in protest against the continuous detention of Aitzaz Ahsan, Justice (retd) Tariq Mahmood, Ali Ahmad Kurd and deposed judges.

A meeting of the committee, chaired by Peshawar High Court Bar Association president Abdul Lateef Afridi, was held here which was attended by senior lawyers and office-bearers of the High Court Bar and Peshawar District Bar Associations.

The meeting was convened to prepare recommendations to be sent to the national committee which would meet here on Jan 13.

It was unanimously decided that members of the Pakistan Bar Council and LNAC from the NWFP would try to convince the committee to continue boycott of the courts till the restoration of pre-Nov 3 judiciary.

Barrister Zahoorul Haq, Abdul Lateef Afridi, Qaiser Rahseed, Ms Mussarat Hilali, Jamal Khattak and Syed Attique Shah spoke on the occasion.

They said that ending of the boycott without achieving the objective of the restoration of the pre-Nov 3 judiciary would turn their movement useless.

The participants questioned how they could appear before the PCO-judges whose appointment they did not recognise as their taking of the oath was unconstitutional.

They said that at the national committee’s meeting, which would decide whether to continue the boycott of superior courts or not, the participants from the NWFP would oppose any reconciliation with the government and the ‘unconstitutional’ judiciary.