BAHAWALPUR, July 23: Leaders and workers of some political parties will join lawyers to welcome deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on his arrival here on July 26.

The deposed justice is scheduled to reach here from Multan on the invitation of Bahawalpur High Court Bar Association. He will preside over a lawyers’ convention to be attended by the office-bearers of most of the bar associations and their members in south Punjab. Other deposed judges will also be invited to the convention.

The parties, which were preparing to join the reception, are Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and Tehreek-i-Insaf (TI).

The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) has directed its parliamentarians and activists to give a befitting reception to Justice Chaudhry.

PML-N office-bearers have been asked to have a close coordination with the hosts. MNA Saood Majid Chaudhry said his party would give a warm welcome to the deposed chief justice. Punjab JI naib amir Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar and TI district president Inayat Karim are mobilising their workers.

Umair Mohsin, general secretary of the Bahawalpur high court bar dispelled the impression that the bar was disallowed to hold its convention at the lawns of the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court.

He said the additional registrar of Bahawalpur Bench had allowed the convention and a letter had been duly issued by the additional registrar to him. He said he had displayed the copies of the permission letter on the notice boards of high and district courts.

DCO AGGRIEVED: Mother of District Coordination Officer (DCO) Bahawalpur Muhammad Mushtaq Ahmed died at Bahawal Victoria Hospital. She was under treatment for over a fortnight. Her body was taken for burial to her native town Karampur Borana Khas near Mailsi.