SWABI, Sept 30: Leaders of the Swabi Bar Association said here on Tuesday that judges who took fresh oath of their offices wanted to harm the lawyers’ struggle for independence of the judiciary.

At a meeting held to discuss the post-Eid strategy, association president Ahmad Ali claimed that those who had taken fresh oath of their offices had owned the Nov 3 action of then president Pervez Musharraf.

It was the former president who struck the very roots of independent judiciary, he observed. However, he (Musharraf) had paid a big price for that and, similarly, the judges who took fresh oath also face the consequences, he added.

“We don’t accept these judges (who took fresh oath). The struggle initiated for independent judiciary will continue. The names of those who took fresh oath will be secured in history books that how they left their colleagues who wanted to fight for a genuine cause,” he maintained.

After Eid, he said, a full-fledged campaign, including locking of courts, would be launched by lawyers across the country.

He said lawyers had declared on the very first day of their campaign that they wanted achievement of their objectives and till that their struggle would continue.

The association’s general secretary said: “We will continue our struggle for reinstatement of deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.”

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