MIRPURKHAS, Sept 11: Lawyers boycotted courts in a number of districts of the province on Thursday in keeping with their continued struggle for the reinstatement of deposed justice Iftikhar Mohammed Choudhry and other judges.

In Mirpurkhas, members of the District Bar Association held a general body meeting at the bar room in which the DBA president Salahuddin Panhwar and secretary Iqbal Rind reiterated the lawyers’ resolve to continue protest till the reinstatement of all the deposed judges including Iftikhar Choudhry.

Our Hyderabad correspondent adds: Lawyers boycotted courts on the call given by Pakistan Bar Council and Supreme Court Bar Association to press the government for restoring judiciary to pre-Nov 3 position.

The president of High Court Bar Association Sattar Kazi said in his address to a lawyers gathering that reinstatement of Iftikhar Choudhry had become a popular demand of lawyers and civil society today.

Democracy could not flourish in the country without an independent judiciary, he said.