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Over 1,000 lawyers protest against dictatorship

By Rana Tanveer

LAHORE: The Lahore Bar Association (LBA) on the call of the lawyers’ National Action Committee (NAC) boycotted all court proceedings and held a rally on Thursday to register their protest against dictatorship and President General Pervez Musharraf’s aspirations to be re-elected as president.

No worker of any major political party was present at the protest rally, but some activists of Khaksar Tehrik, led by Allama Hamiduddin Ahmed Al Mashriqi, and the Yellow Cab Federation, led by their president Najamul Saqib, joined the lawyers at Aiwan-e-Adal.

About 1,000 lawyers, led by LBA president Syed Muhammad Shah, marched from Aiwan-e-Adal to the Lahore High Court (LHC) chanting slogans and holding banners against dictatorship. Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) representatives Sahibzada Anwar Hami and Zulfiqar Bokhari and Punjab Bar Council vice chairman Tariq Javed Warraich also joined the LBA rally.

The protesting lawyers chanted slogans against the reported deal of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) with Gen Musharraf. Many of them also held umbrellas inscribed with their slogan “Go Musharraf Go”.

Before taking out the protest rally, the LBA held its general house meeting in which a resolution was passed condemning the government for allegedly harassing and arresting hundreds of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz activists. He said the lawyers would carry on protesting until the end of dictatorship from Pakistan. He said Musharraf had ruined civil and military institutions. He said Musharraf and some other generals were defaming the military on orders from the West.

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