SUKKUR, Feb 25: Lawyers of Sindh have urged the federal and Punjab governments to refrain from ‘unconstitutionally and unlawfully’ keeping lawyers and honorable judges under house arrest.

Addressing a joint press conference in the Bar room of the Sukkur bench of the Sindh High Court on Monday, president of the Sukkur High Court Bar Association Imdad Ali Awan and general secretary Shabbir Shar warned that the illegal actions would not be tolerated and hoped that the new governments in the centre and the provinces would retract all such unlawful acts.

They also warned that if the deposed chief justice of Supreme Court, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary, the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Chaudhary Aitzaz Ahsan, member of the Pakistan Bar Council from Balochistan, Ali Ahmed Kurd, Justice (retd) Tariq Mehmood and other honourable judges of the Supreme Court and high courts were not released in a week, lawyers would launch agitation all over the country by staging hunger strikes and courting arrests.

DEMO: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) staged a demonstration and observed a token hunger strike in front of the Sukkur Press Club in protest against the detention of the party’s general secretary, Dr Safdar Sarki.