A division in lawyers

As the long march has ended, a division seems to have emerged in the lawyers struggle. Have the lawyers achieved their objectives? Rifts have occurred between various lawyers on whether their objectives were achieved or not. Former General Secretary District Bar Association Intizar Mehdi has strongly condemned the decision of Ch Aitzaz on sit-in. He said that Aitzaz should have taken the lawyers into confidence but failed to do so. Other members of the Punjab Bar Council have also voiced their concern over the fact that Aitzaz has turned his allegiance. The movement, from the beginning, showed that it was dominated by personalities who were not concentrating on the cause. -ZULFIKAR SAEED, Islamabad, via e-mail, June 17.

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