RAWALPINDI, Nov 1: Lawyers here on Saturday staged a car rally which passed through different roads of the city aimed at mobilising people for November 3 march towards the Supreme Court.

Lawyers are observing November 3 as black day as on this day last year former president Pervez Musharraf proclaimed emergency and sent home more than 60 judges of the superior courts.

Lawyers riding in some 100 cars started their rally from district courts and took round of old Raja Bazaar, commercial market via Saidpur Road, Faizabad and came back to district courts via Murree Road.

The lawyers were carrying black flags, banners and placards inscribed with slogans in favour of deposed judges and independence of judiciary. The lawyers chanted slogans against the present government for backing out from the promises they made for the return of the judges.

Before leaving for car rally the representatives of district bar association (DBA) and high court bar association (HCBA) said that all arrangements had been made for the address of the deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on November 3 and they would not sit idle until the restoration of all deposed judges.

President DBA Sardar Tariq Masood and President HCBA Sardar Asmatullah along with other representatives told media persons in the bar hall crowded with lawyers that Ali Ahmed Kurd’s victory in the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections had given a boost to the 20-month long struggle, which would only end with the restoration of Iftikhar Chaudhry to the pre-November 3, 2007 position.