ISLAMABAD, Jan 31: Pakistan Bar Council, the supreme body of the legal practitioners in the country, will hold a National Conference of Lawyers Representatives on Saturday to discuss the restoration of the 1973 Constitution in its original form and the Legal Framework Order (LFO).

Representatives of different bar associations have been invited to attend the conference.

Lawyers community led by Hamid Khan, President of the SCBA; Mian Abbas, Vice Chairman of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC); and Haleem Pirzada, Member of the PBC from Sindh, has taken strong position on the LFO, and is demanding rejection of the LFO and restoration of independence of judiciary.

In its last meeting, the PBC had passed hard hitting resolutions, saying that Legal Framework Order 2002, was not part of the Constitution, and three years’ extension in the retirement age of superior court judges was a “dubious gift from the military rulers” for the judiciary.

It had asked the judiciary not to accept the extensions in their retirement age through the LFO and termed those judges who otherwise would have retired if they were not given the extension, “usurper judges.”