QUETTA, Aug 4: Lawyers took out a procession here on Monday in protest against President Pervez Musharraf’s visit to the city and vowed to continue their struggle for reinstatement of the deposed judges.

They boycotted courts after 11am and gathered outside the press club.

Senior lawyer Ali Ahmed Kurd, Balochistan Bar Association president Amanullah Baloch, ex-president Baz Mohammad Kakar and Raja Rab Nawaz spoke on the occasion.

They held the president responsible for political, constitutional and judicial crises in the country and accused him of launching a military operation in Balochistan.

They said the lawyers had given the Aug 14 deadline to the government to reverse General (retd) Musharraf’s illegal act of deposing Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary and other superior court judges.

They warned of a movement of civil disobedience if the judiciary was not restored by Aug 14.