FAISALABAD, March 9: Lawyers led by District Bar Association president Nasir Ali Gorraya staged a demonstration at Kamalpur Interchange when Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, who took oath under the Nov 3 Provisional Constitution Order, en route Multan via Jhang arrived here from Islamabad on Saturday.

Sources said that the chief justice was on his on way to Jhang when some protesting lawyers gathered at Kamalpur Interchange after coming to know the top judge’s travelling plan.

The protesters were carrying banners and black flags. They resorted to sloganeering in favour of deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry the moment Justice Dogar’s vehicle left the motorway to enter the city precincts.

The lawyers vowed to continue their struggle till the reinstatement of all superior courts judges deposed under the Nov 3 PCO and for the establishment of rule of law, supremacy of the Constitution and independence of the judiciary.

Sudden and unannounced protest by the lawyers left protocol and security officials stunned and they immediately changed the CJP’s route towards Chiniot instead of

Jhang to avert any further ‘eventuality’.