LAHORE - Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Wednesday blamed the government for resorting to price-hike, describing it an attempt to divert masses attention from the lawyers' movement for the independence of the judiciary. Addressing a press conference, the Bar leaders also announced to organise another long march to Islamabad to keep the demand for judges restoration in the limelight and show lawyers commitment that they would not rest until the fulfilment of their demands. When asked that the announcement of long march by the SCBA amounts to violating the restraint placed by Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on other bodies of the lawyers on taking individual decisions with respect to the movement, particularly on holding the long march, Secretary SCBA Amin Javed Chaudhary said, the PBC was also with it visa-a-vis taking out the long march, and the schedule in this regard would be announced by the All Pakistan Lawyers Representatives Conference on July 19 next. Javed said unlike the last long march (on June 9 to June 14), the lawyers would hold a compulsory sit-in at Islamabad in the next long march and would not leave until judges' reinstatement to their November 2 position. Despite the fact that objections were raised to the way the previous five-day long march was wrapped on June 14 last, Amin Javed termed the same highly successful saying, it inculcated importance of judges restoration in the minds of the people and succeeded in conveying message worldwide that Pervez Musharraf must go for he (Musharraf) was a stumbling block in the way of democracy in the country. Flanked by Vice President, Punjab, Ghulam Nabi Bhatti, and the executive members, Khwaja Tariq Sohail, Shahid Jamil Khan, Malik Azeem, Rana Farman Ali Sabir, Imrana Perveen Baloch, Mudassar Bodla and Media Coordinator Muhammad Azhar Siddique, the secretary SCBA said the government appeared insincere about judges restoration, and in order to put the issue on backburner, it had unleashed demon of price-hike on the masses in a bid take their attention off the judges restoration. Amin said effecting price hike was a deliberate attempt by the government. He asked the Chief Minister Punjab to arrest the spiralling prices of the items of daily use at the provincial level. The secretary hoped lawyers' movement would not be deterred by such tricks and continue to go on till the objectives were achieved. The Bar leadership with one voice also rejected the constitutional package presented to it by the government for perusal and comments. However, it had strongly favoured those parts that empowered the Prime Minister and the Parliament by way of curtailing the powers of the President. The leaders had called for judges' restoration through an executive order and not through any constitutional amendment, which they said, could not be carried in the Parliament, as the required two-thirds majority was not available to the ruling coalition. Javed Amin has also spurned a report that deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was going to take charge of the movement for the independence of judiciary and said the CJP or other deposed judges would not be dragged into the movement which, he added, was started by the lawyers and they would take it forward. Ghulam Nabi Bhatti said the community would also hold an international jurists conference on the independence of judiciary.