RAWALPINDI, Oct 16: The Rawalpindi chapter of the Lahore High Court Bar Association has announced that deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will address a lawyers’ convention on Nov 3.

The representatives of the LHCBA and office-bearers of district and tehsil bar associations of the Rawalpindi division decided at a meeting on Thursday not to allow Law Minister Farooq H. Naek and Attorney General Latif Khosa to enter the bar premises because of their activities against the movement for restoration of judiciary.

After the meeting, LHCBA president Sardar Asmatullah said at a press conference that the lawyers would observe Nov 3 as black day and after the CJ’s address, they would march to the Constitution Avenue.

He said that the unlawful cancellation of licences of Multan Bar officer-bearers by the Pakistan Bar Council had forced the LHCBA and Rawalpindi division bar associations to ban entry of the attorney general.

The lawyers criticised President Asif Ali Zardari for pursuing policies of the previous government and urged him to immediately restore the CJ and other judges.