LAHORE, Nov 28: Members of the Lahore Bar Association (LBA) on Wednesday tore apart the copies of Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils (Amendment) Ordinance 2007, and vowed to resist what they called the government’s conspiracy to browbeat lawyers.

Gathered on LBA premises at Aiwan-i-Adl, they chanted slogans against the government and urged Gen Musharraf to quit.

LBA President Syed Muhammad Shah said the regime was not only trying to hatch conspiracies against the legal fraternity, but also against the judiciary.

He said neither the lawyers see it as a legitimate document nor they would abandon their struggle for the establishment of rule of law, supremacy of the Constitution and independence of the judiciary.