'PPP fails to deliver': Lawyers want national govt

LAHORE- Lawyers in their daily protest on Saturday raised slogans for the constitution of a national government with Pakistan’s Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan at head position after considering the failure of the PPP government in addressing the issue especially in its promise to restore the deposed judges within 30 days of the government.
Lawyers in the city held a token boycott of the courts to press their demand for the judges’ restoration while at the Lahore High Court Bar Association they set up a token hunger strike and a protest camp.
At the protest camp set up by the Save Judiciary Committee, a number of lawyers including chairman of the committee, Abdul Rashid Qureshi, Allah Bux Gondal, Asmar A Sheikh, Khan Muhammad Sarfraz, Sheikh Abdul Majid, Malik Hamid Sarfraz, Imtiaz Rashid Qurehsi, Nasreem Khattak and others gathered and chanted loud slogans for the reinstatement of the judges, and formation of a national government headed by Dr Khan. The lawyers also raised voice for the construction of the Kalabagh Dam whose significance was highlighted by various advocates in their statement later on. They all favoured construction of the dam in the larger interest of the whole nation while counting certain political parties as impeding its way to get their own interest served.
Speaking to the lawyers Abdul Rashid Qureshi said, the country at present was facing a number of serious challenges and the government was raising just hollow slogans when the poor were dying of starvation and writ of the government appeared nowhere to control things. He said price-hike was never so glaring as it was today and the same was situation of law and order and the economic failures of the government. He said it was a pity that instead of taking action against public woes, the rulers were taking advantage of the situation to make money in the name of addressing their problems. He said the situation had become so pitiable that the people were prone to sell out their kids to get a humble sustenance while others were committing suicide to get rid of a painful life. He said the situation demanded of the rulers to adopt austerity setting aside luxuries of life in order to provide relief to the poor instead they were continuing to mint money paying no regard to the plight of a layman. He called for restoring the system of magistracy ending the present local government system saying, it was a classical principle that if a country had to be ruined, end up its administrative system, which had been done through the abolishing of magistracy system. He blamed the local government system for contributing to the present skyrocketing prices of the items of daily use. He said if the rulers were unable to end public miseries they should leave power to let a national government come into being head by Dr Khan who, he added, had tremendously rendered meritorious services for the country and the nation.