| Lower courts disgruntled over hijacking. |
| Monday, 16 June 2008 | |
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Legal representatives belonging to the bar associations of the lower courts of the country have formulated a joint committee, sans the bar councils of the superior courts, as the long march, which ended on a ‘bitter note’, did not adhere to the plan decided in the meeting of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC). Karachi Bar Association (KBA) General Secretary Naeem Qureshi, however, told The News that a plan for a “Train March”, that will head towards Islamabad, will be decided upon in a meeting of the PBC which is scheduled for Monday in Islamabad. The office-bearers of the lower court bar associations were of the view that, not only had the leaders of the lawyers’ movement deviated from the plan prescribed in the PBC meeting but had also ‘compromised’ on certain issues. The lower courts’ lawyers have announced that they will hold an urgent meeting at their respective bar associations on Monday which would finalise a future course of action with regard to the reinstatement of judges and the independence of the judiciary. They were also of the view that the movement, which started from the lower courts, was hijacked by the superior courts’ bar associations at the last moment, who, in turn, had allegedly reached an agreement with the ‘establishment’ for not continuing with the movement. While it was initially decided that the lawyers would not leave their final destination, i.e. the National Assembly, till the judiciary was restored, certain elements amongst the community already had some alternative intentions that worked out, said a senior lawyer. A meeting of the KBA will also be held at the Shuhada-e-Punjab Hall on Monday morning which will adopt a future line of action. While some of the lawyers holding key position in the KBA believed that a ‘wait-and-see’ policy would be adopted to give a chance to those who made tall claims throughout the long march. Referring to Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan’s reported statement that the lawyers would fight the war at the right time at the right place, an office-bearer of the KBA said that he was waiting for these words to be fulfilled and questioned that, if it was not the ‘appropriate time’, then why were the people befooled. “We will not relent on the issue until the judges are not independent and reinstated to their original position as they were before Nov 3, 2007,” was the commitment made by General Secretary KBA, Naeem Qureshi. |
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