LAHORE, March 14: Lawyers continued to observe the black flag week on the sixth consecutive day on Friday in protest against the removal of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and over 60 judges.

In the provincial metropolis, the lawyers observed a partial boycott of courts, staged hunger-strike camps and passed resolutions demanding registration of a criminal case against Pervez Musharraf on charges of keeping judges in illegal confinement.

They hoisted black flags on rooftops of bar buildings, besides passing condemnation resolutions and holding hunger-strike camps.

A delegation of SCBA, Judicial Activism Panel and students also visited the Mazar-i-Iqbal and held a public awareness camp. Justice Nasira Javed Iqbal (retired) also joined the camp.

Speaking on the occasion, SCBA Vice-President Ghulam Nabi Bhatti said the people of Pakistan would never forgive Musharraf for his Nov 3 steps, and it would be marked as the blackest day in the history book.

SCBA media adviser Azhar Siddique said the black flag week was being observed against Musharraf’s extra-constitutional steps.

Earlier at the LHC, Khwaja Tariq Suhail, Rana Farman Ali, Malik Azeem, Muhammad Azhar Siddiqui, Lahore High Court Bar Association President Anwar Kamal and secretary Rana Asadullah joined hunger strike camps of the PML-N and the Save Judiciary Committee. —Reporter