ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) is divided over the issue of meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari that is expected today (January 8) in Karachi. In this regard Bar executive body meeting has been called in Karachi in which they have to decide whether to meet the President Zardari or not. President and the Prime Minister are already in Karachi. The sources told TheNation that Hamid Khan group that has 11 members in the bar's executive body of 22 members was opposing SCBA delegation's decision to meet with President Zardari in order to get papers of eight kanals of land for construction of lawyers' hostel in Islamabad. An SCBA executive body member of Hamid Khan group, told, "Their stance is that if the President wanted to give land documents for lawyers hostel then he should send it to bar office instead we go there begging for documents, which is below our dignity." He said that the Government's position was weak in the present scenario and therefore President Zardari by doling out funds to the SCBA in Bilawal House wanted to show that lawyers were standing with PPP. SCBA Chairman Housing Committee Shafi Muhammad Chandio said President Zardari would hand over the documents of eight kanals plot to Bar President for lawyers hostel in Islamabad. Chandio stated that present SCBA executive body wanted to work for the welfare of lawyers, adding that main objective of this meeting was also lawyers' welfare. The SC Bar on December 13 sent a letter to the President of Pakistan requesting him to grant time for a meeting with SCBA delegation. It is worth mentioning that the previous two SCBA executive bodies had refused to meet with the President Zardari and Qazi Anwar, ex-president of Bar, even returned Rs 1 million cheque to the Law Ministry given for the welfare of the SCBA staff.