SCBA backs impeachment

The November 3rd PCO to sack the judges of the superior judiciary, he said, just aimed at his ensuing candidature in the presidential elections. For this and other reasons, he said, impeachment of Pervez Musharraf should have been carried out long before, and the Bar fully supports the coalition government decision to impeach him now.

The Bar Secretary said legal fraternity would never like to derail the democratic process and warned, if Pervez Musharraf tried to pull down the democratic set-up using 58(2)b, lawyers would not accept it and take him and his cronies to task for the same.

He said February 18 elections were a clear public verdict against Musharraf and his supporters, therefore, he must go now. He said things must not come to an end with ouster of Musharraf but by making him an example by trying him under Article 6 of the Constitution for subversion of the constitution and putting him on gallows. He said killing of innocent persons in Lal Masjid, as well as in Balochistan were such offences which could not be eschewed.