PML-N wants judges' restoration by Monday

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PML-N wants judges' restoration by Monday
Updated at: 1715 PST, Saturday, August 23, 2008
RAIWIND: Leader of Pakistan Muslim League-N Mian Nawaz Sharif has given Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) a deadline till Monday for restoration of the judges and asked PPP to tell him by tonight whether it intends to restore judges the day after tomorrow.

Addressing a press conference after a meeting with PPP delegation here, Nawaz Sharif said that he told the delegation that judges should be restored by Monday.

Nawaz informed that agreements between PPP and PML-N were hammered out on August 5 and 7 about judges’ restoration. PPP promised in one of the agreements to restore the judges within 24 hours of the resignation of former president Musharraf but it failed to fulfill the same, he added.

Regarding PML-N’s support to Zardari as candidate for president’s post, he said he will put the matter before his party.

“PPP can earn the right to presidency if it succeeds in abolishing the 17th amendment (of the Constitution) but in case it fails to do so then an impartial person should be elected to the post,” PML-N Chief said.

He was of the view that the right of dissolving the assemblies should rest with prime minister and not with president.

Sharif said neither his party nor he is a candidate for presidential poll despite reserving a right of it.

Independent judiciary is indispensable for the country’s stability and our next generations. If we failed to work for the supremacy of the Constitution and law, the coming generations would not forgive us.

 

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Aitzaz stops anti-Zardari chants

Lawyers stage two-hour sit-in | Women faint due to scorching heat | Reinstate judges or face the music, protesters warn govt

Jamaluddin Jamali

LAHORE: City lawyers together with civil society activists and workers of political parties, led by Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan, held a protest demo and staged a two-hour sit-in at Faisal Chowk on The Mall for the restoration of the November 2 judiciary in the scorching heat on Thursday.

The lawyers of the Lahore High Court held a sit-in at Faisal Chowk while the Lahore Bar Association (LBA) members held a separate sit-in for two hours at PMG Chowk. The sit-in started at 12pm and continued till 2pm with traffic jams on The Mall.

After the general house meeting of the Lahore High Court Bar which was also addressed by SCBA President Aitzaz, the lawyers came out of the Lahore High Court and chanted slogans at GPO Chowk. A large number of activists of political parties and civil society groups also joined the rally and the demo. The participants of the small but dynamic rallies, holding their respective flags and banners and chanting slogans in favour of Chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and against the sitting government, marched towards Charing Cross for staging a two-hour sit-in on the call of National Coordination Council (NCC) to pressurise the government to reinstate Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and other deposed judges.

As soon as the rally reached the Punjab Assembly, SCBA President Aitzaz Ahsan rushed to the stage already set up there, took microphone and, in an angry mood, directed the participants not to chant slogans against PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari or negative slogans against the political leadership of the country. He said lawyers and others should raise slogans in favour of Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan instead of abusing any political leader.

It was a hot day and the protest demo of two hours became a hard test for lawyers and activists of civil society. Many of them could not bear the scorching heat and fell unconscious owing to dehydration and suffocation.

Many women belonging to civil society among others also sat on the hot road at Faisal Chowk in front of the Punjab Assembly and kept on raising slogans in favour of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and against the sitting government. Some women were having umbrellas to protect themselves from the heat but in vain.

A few tents had been arranged at Faisal Chowk. Aitzaz Ahsan asked lawyers and others not to sit under the shadow of trees on The Mall or tents because women belonging to the legal community and civil society were sitting on the naked floor of the road under the blazing sun. Aitzaz Ahsan, SCBA Secretary Amin Javed, PBC member Hafiz Abdur Rehman Ansari and others addressed the participants of the sit-in time and again during the two-hour-long sit-in.

LHCBA Finance Secretary Syeda Feroza Rubab, while raising slogans, fell unconscious due to dehydration and suffocation on the stage. The clothes of senior lawyers, including Pakistan Bar Council member Hafiz Abdur Rehman Ansari, got wet with perspiration and he was about to faint. The bars and lawyers had made ample arrangements for drinking water.

The colourful flags, banners and placards of the activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, Khaksar Tehrik (KT), Pakistan Tekrik-e-Insaf, Labour Party of Pakistan, Pakistan Muslim League-N, Student Action Committee (SAC) and Concerned Citizens of Pakistan (CCP) dominated the scene while lawyers were less in number. However, SCBA President Aitzaz, who is also chairman of National Coordination Council (NCC), and his wife Bushra Aitzaz infused life in the demo and made it a lively show for many onlookers on The Mall. Aitzaz made strenuous efforts to stop anti-Zardari slogans but many of the workers of political parties off and on raised slogans against Zardari.

Lawyers' leaders warned the government to reinstate the deposed judges, including Iftikhar Chaudhry, before it was too late otherwise Zardari and his party's government would be thrown out of power. At 2pm, Aitzaz Ahsan congratulated the lawyers and activists of the civil society groups for a successful demo and sit-in for two hours in the scorching heat and said it should be a message to the government that lawyers could do anything for achieving their goals of rule of law and independence of the judiciary. He said the sit-in programme would continue till the reinstate of the deposed judges. Many lawyers condemned the deposed judges of Sindh High Court who are taking oath.

 

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Aitzaz stops anti-Zardari chants

As soon as the rally reached the Punjab Assembly, SCBA President Aitzaz Ahsan rushed to the stage already set up there, took microphone and, in an angry mood, directed the participants not to chant slogans against PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari or negative slogans against the political leadership of the country. .

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this US agent has been exposed long before.

How can one agent tolerate slogans against another agent of CIA zardari ?