KARACHI, Aug 27: The Sindh High Court Bar Association said on Wednesday that it would continue its protest as the reinstatement of judges by means of a new oath validated their removal under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) and also because the government was evidently resorting to pick and choose.

All the deposed judges should have been restored simultaneously without being administered a new oath, SHCBA President Rasheed A. Razvi said. The sit-in on M.A. Jinnah Road would be staged from 12 noon to 2pm as scheduled, he added.

He said that besides the SHCBA, the Karachi Bar Association, the Malir Bar Association, civil society organizations and political parties, particularly those belonging to the APDM, would participate in the protest.

Pakistan Bar Council member Yasin Khan Azad and Sindh Bar Council members Mustafa Lakhani, Salahuddin Gandapur, Khalil Dogar, Mohammad Aqil and Ismail Memon also called for reinstatement of all the deposed judges, and expressed their resolve to continue the struggle till the achievement of the objective.

Meanwhile, SBC human rights committee chairman M. Aqil Lodhi has criticized the government and the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) for high price of compressed natural gas.

He said the price cut announced by Ogra was too meager to bring any relief to the consumers.