KARACHI, Nov 3 The Sindh High Court Bar Association on Wednesday demanded a public trial of former military dictator retired Gen Pervez Musharraf and his abettors for subverting the constitution.

The SHCBA made this demand in a resolution unanimously adopted in its general body meeting held at Iftikhar Hall on the first floor of the SHC building with its president Rasheed A. Razvi in the chair to mark the third anniversary of the proclamation of a provisional constitution order by the former dictator.

Members of the Karachi Bar Association staged a sit-in on M.A. Jinnah Road and chanted anti-Musharraf slogans.

The SHCBA meeting called upon the federal government to initiate criminal proceedings against those responsible for detaining the Chief Justice of Pakistan and other judges of the superior courts for more than five months so that no official, civil or military, would dare to detain the judges again.

“This house further denounces all who initiated, collaborated and colluded in that infamous attempt to subjugate and muzzle the judiciary, the bar and the media and calls for a public trial of Gen (Rtd) Pervez Musharraf and all those who aided and abetted him in his subversion of the Constitution,” the resolution said. Lawyers did not boycott the proceedings at the city courts. But the legal community in the Malir district courts observed a boycott.