SCBA backs impeachment

LAHORE- Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) while supporting impeachment of General Pervez Musharraf has called upon the government to also hold him accountable for the killings in Jamia Hafza as well as of Nawab Akbar Bugti murder and the thrice subversion of the Constitution, under Article 6 of the Constitution.

The Bar has also objected to the government decision to push the restoration of judges after success of the impeachment move and called upon the ongoing session of the National Assembly to restore the judges through an executive order prior to impeachment as a check against any resort to the Court which General Pervez Musharraf may make out of frustration.

More than any other, dictators, particularly, General Pervez Musharraf, damaged the country and the present despicable situation facing the country is the result of what he has done to the judiciary since March 9,2007, in Lal Masjid, in Balochistan and on the economic side of the country, told Secretary of the Bar Muhammad Amin Javed Chaudhary to a press conference here Monday.

Flanked by the executive members of his body, he said the unconstitutional steps taken by Musharraf have pushed the country into a critical situation.