KARACHI, March 27: The invasion of Iraq is violative of all conventions and norms of international law and of the UN charter, the Supreme Court Bar Association secretary said here on Thursday.

Speaking at a joint press conference in the Sindh High Court Bar Association hall, SCBA secretary Sahibzada Anwar Hameed, former SHCBA secretary Moin Azhar Siddiqui, Advocate Noor Naz Agha of the International Alliance for Human Rights and Advocate Syed Ghulam Shah of the Sindh Thinkers Forum said the Pakistan government should more categorically condemn the US-led invasion of Iraq. They called for the annulment of the Legal Framework Order so that a duly empowered and truly representative government could deal with the crisis.

The lawyers said the US invasion was likely to set a bad precedent and weaken the UN-based international system. The concept of collective security and the regime for peaceful settlement of disputes among states would suffer irreversibly. It would lead to international disorder instead of a new world order.