Lawyers will not flinch back from principled stand: SCBA

LAHORE - The Supreme Court Bar Association office-bearers have said that lawyers will not flinch back an inch from their principle stand on the restoration of judiciary to November 2 position. "Lawyers have rendered many sacrifices over the last 14 months for the sake of independent judiciary inevitably linked with the restoration of judges deposed on November 3," said Vice President of the bar, Ghulam Nabi Bhatti and Media Coordinator Muhammad Azhar Siddique here Wednesday. They also criticised the tribunal's decision on the plea against the accepted nomination papers of former Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif after main petitioner had withdrawn objections against their candidature. The office-bearers said that thousands of lawyers were going to take part in the Convention, in Peshawar on May 31. The bar committee, constituted to finalise arrangement of the lawyers departure from Lahore and other parts of the country to Peshawar, has completed the job, they said, adding that the caravan of Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary would proceed from Islamabad to Peshawar on the said date and would be received warmly at many places enroute Meanwhile, lawyers are preparing the world longest register with the signatures of about 80,000 advocates all over the country who have expressed their solidarity with Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary on his courageous stand against a dictator. The register would be sent to Guinness Book of World Records.

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