Bars seek Qayyum’s removal

Published April 18, 2008

LAHORE, April 17: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) have demanded that the government remove Attorney-General Malik Mohammad Qayyum ‘for hatching conspiracies against lawyers to foil their movement for the restoration of deposed judges’.

The LHCBA passed a unanimous resolution for the removal of the attorney-general who they accused of working for a ‘dictator’.

In a separate statement, the SCBA asked the government to remove the attorney-general immediately and hold a judicial inquiry against him.

The bar associations said the attorney-general had drawn millions of rupees as fee in a case against deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

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