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Sacked judges to attend lawyers’ convention in Faisalabad: SCBA

* Sacked judges agree ‘in principle’ to board judicial buses

By Masood Rehman

ISLAMABAD: The sacked judges of the superior courts, including sacked Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, will participate in a lawyers’ convention in Faisalabad on May 24, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Secretary Muhammad Amin Javed said on Wednesday.

“The sacked judges of the Supreme Court as well as high courts and Federal Shariat Court will be brought to the convention’s venue on judicial buses,” Javed told Daily Times. The Faisalabad Bar Association is organising the convention, titled “Restoration of Judiciary as it was on November 2, 2007,” said Javed. All bar association presidents and a large number of lawyers from across the country will attend the conference to reiterate their resolve to reinstate the sacked judges, he added.

Javed said preparations for the convention had been finalised and the sacked judges had agreed ‘in principle’ to board judicial busses, which had been specially arranged to take them to the convention venue. He said SCBA President Aitzaz Ahsan and Lahore High Court Bar Association President Anwar Kamal would lead a huge procession of lawyers from Lahore to Faisalabad, along with the sacked judges.

Lahore High Court Bar Association Rawalpindi Bench President Sardar Asmat Ullah will lead the procession from Rawalpindi-Islamabad, including the judicial bus with deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and other judges of the Supreme Court, to the convention, he added. Asked what action the lawyers would take if the judges were not reinstated, he said they would start their long march from Lahore to Islamabad on June 10, and after that protests would be launched across the country. A committee is finalising the logistics of the long march plan, he added.

To a question on the proposed constitutional package, which might cut the tenure of the chief justice and enhance the superannuation age of other superior court judges, Javed responded: “We will consult the chief justice as well as other judges and take a decision about accepting or rejecting the constitutional package’s contents according to their wishes”.

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