LAHORE - Justice Syed Asghar Haider of the Lahore High Court has directed Advocate General Punjab to get the complaint decided pending before the Pakistan Bar Council challenging the Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) "extravagant expenditures" beyond the lawyers' welfare. The judge passed this order in a petition of Advocate Imran Javed Gill. The judge also directed the PBC to decide the matter on August 01. Advocate Imran Javed Gill, a voter member of the PbBC, submitted in his petition that in its May 31 meeting the PbBC members on a resolution of its elected members Arshad Ali, Rashid Warraich, Muhammad Zaman Mangat, Amir Jaleel Siddiqi, Muhammad Mazhar, Sanaullah Zahid and M Azhar Chaudhry decided to held its next meeting in Murree on July 31. He said the meeting was against the mandate given to the members by the common lawyers as they were trying to spend the bar funds for their recreation by holding meeting in Murree when there were bar offices in Lahore. Appearing on behalf of the PbBC its secretary Akbar Bhatti submitted that the meeting in Murree would be less expensive than in Lahore. The petition further submitted that the "Jahad Be Misaal", a book on lawyers movement, was also printed from the bar funds for projection of a few lawyers after ignoring the bar members. He said most of the bar members had showed their resentment against the book. He said the bar funds were being used for some members' personal recreation and motives by ignoring the welfare of the common lawyers. He said he already had filed the petition in which on June 13 this year, the LHC had ordered him to file complaint before the PBC against the PbBC. He said he had filed the complaint before the PBC, which had not taken any action in this regard. He added that now till July 31, the meeting day, no meeting of the PBC was scheduled wherein it could take up the matter. He prayed that resolution of the PbBC to hold its meeting in Murree be set aside and direct the members to spend the bar funds upon the lawyers' welfare. He also prayed that inquiry also be ordered on publishing of the book from the PbBC funds for projection of a few lawyers. He further prayed that till the petition was pending before the court, the meeting of the PbBC be stayed. Court suspends death penalty to 2 accused A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday suspended death penalty of two accused scheduled for Tuesday (today) till August 03 on their petition. Black warrants of Shafaqat Ali and Muhammad Saeed were issued according to which they were to be hanged on Tuesday (today) and they had their last meeting with their loved ones, said their counsel Sardar Khurram Latif Khan Khosa. Khosa said the court orders were delivered to the jail authorities through fax. Khosa submitted before the bench of Justice Hasnat Ahmed Khan and Justice Kazim Ali Malik that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on June 22 had announced to commute the death sentence of all prisoners. He added that for this purpose, a summary was already sent to the president who had yet to take his decision over it. He added that the Supreme Court also had taken suo moto notice on the step and till the final decision of the suo motu action, no one could be hanged. Khosa told that both the petitioner were condemned prisoners as President of Pakistan also had rejected their clemency appeals. He prayed the court that till the final decision of the SC notice and president's decision about the death penalty commuting into life imprisonment, kindly issue directives to the jail authorities not to hang the petitioners. However the judge also directed the petitioners to file a petition before the supreme court to become a party in its suo moto notice taken against the government decision of commuting the death penalty. According to the prosecution, Shafaqat and Saeed were involved in a murdered case registered at Mananwala Police Station of district Sheikhupura.