Aitzaz admits differences with PPP leadership over judges

ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - PPP leader and SCBA President Aitzaz Ahsan has said that he had differences with the leadership over the judges' issue.

However, he expressed the hope that deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will be restored. "If the Prime Minister orders, all the deposed judges can be restored within three minutes", the SCBA President observed.

In an interview with a private TV channel on Tuesday Aitzaz said that the PPP and PML-N failed to restore the judges and could not fulfill their promise in this regard which had created disappointment among he people.  He made it clear that he was against curtailing power of the Chief Justice.

To a question, he said that there were differences among the members of the Constitution committee over settling the status of the PCO judges.

To another question, he said that the lawyers would finalise future line of action in their meeting on May 17.