KARACHI, March 4: The legal fraternity will not compromise on the issue of the restoration of deposed judges and will continue its struggle if the new government fails to meet their demand.

This was stated by the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Aitzaz Ahsan, who arrived in Karachi on Tuesday night. Talking to newsmen at the airport, he said that the call for a long march had not been withdrawn. He added that the long march had been postponed to give the new government some time for the reinstatement of deposed judges.

He said that the future course of action would be discussed in a meeting with Munir A. Malik.

He is visiting the provincial capital after a period of over nine months. The SCBA chief last visited the city on May 12, 2007, along with the deposed chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, but they had to fly back to Islamabad after a nine-hour restricted stay at the Karachi airport when the then provincial administration had barred them from coming out of the airport.