KARACHI, March 22: A big caravan of deposed judges and the city-based lawyers on Saturday morning set off for Mirpurkhas to attend the oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected office-bearers of the Mirpurkhas District Bar Association.

The 12 deposed judges traveling in the “judicial buses” were Justices Sabihuddin Ahmed, Sarmad Jalal Osmani, Gulzar Ahmed, Athar Saeed, Salman Ansari, Musheer Alam, Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Ameer Hani Muslim, Arshad Suraj Memon, Sajid Ali Shah, Ghulam Rabbani and a deposed judge of the Supreme Court.

About 40 other vehicles carrying office-bearers of the Sindh High Court Bar Association, the Karachi Bar Association and the Malir Bar Association, besides a large number of lawyers and activists of civil society organisations, accompanied the judicial buses.

A statement issued on Saturday by the Karachi Bar Association said that Senator Azam Khan Sawati would address the KBA general body meeting at Shuhada-i-Punjab Hall of the City Courts to be held on Monday.