Shahbaz for all-out war against PCO judges
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N president Mian Shahbaz Sharif has appealed to the people to rise against PCO judges saying they are in office at the ‘cost of justice’.
Addressing a convention of lawyers at the Lahore High Court on Friday before leading a PML-N rally to the Punjab assembly, the former chief minister said that PCO judges served the military rulers who had trampled the Constitution.
‘They (PCO judges) have murdered justice for jobs and have protected ‘qabza groups’,’ he said, adding that the court of 160 million people would punish the PCO judges who would disappear on March 12 — the day of lawyers’ long march — and their tenure would be mentioned in history as a ‘black chapter’.
Sharif said he had been removed by a ‘phoney’ verdict of the PCO judges. He said he could sacrifice a thousand ministries for judges like M.A. Shahid Siddiqui who had refused to take oath under the PCO and had been deposed.
‘Judges like Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry should be brought back.’
He said the long march was necessary for restoration of the judiciary to the Nov 2, 2007, position.
The PML-N would continue the struggle for reinstatement of deposed judges and would not rest till the objectives were achieved, he said, adding that Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was a ‘relic’ of Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf.
Pakistan Bar Council member Hafiz Abdul Rehman Ansari said that lawyers’ struggle for restoration of deposed judges was about to succeed.
‘Lawyers are thankful to the PML-N, Jamaat-i-Islami and the Tehrik-i-Insaaf for their unconditional support for their movement. President Asif Ali Zardari will not be able to face long march and sit-in,’ Ansari added.
Lahore High Court Bar Association president Anwar Kamal said that lawyers’ community wanted reinstatement of Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry because his ‘no’ had laid the foundation of an intellectual revolution against dictatorship.
Lawyers raised slogans against President Zardari and Governor Taseer when Sharif arrived to address the convention.
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