Price-hike to be tackled after judges' restoration

He said on July 20,2007 SC gave a landmark decision and put the country on the road to justice and fair-play but General (r) Musharraf not affording it on November 3 made another coup and removed 60 judges of the superior judiciary and detained them along with their families. Addressing the PPP lawyers, Aitzaz said, Shaheed Quaid of the party, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto standing outside the barricaded residence of Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had loudly voiced for his restoration as Chief Justice of Pakistan and again raising the national flag at his residence.
This was the will of the Shaheed Quaid and the PPP voters owed its implementation, he said adding, but the needful had yet not been done. He said lawyers and the masses repeatedly had given chance to the rulers to restore the judges for it had to cost them not a single penny but had to win them public trust in a big way given the situation when their popularity was getting down on account of serious problems. Even for the sake of implementing will of Benazir Bhutto, restore the judges, he urged the government.
Former president SCBA Hamid Khan, President LHCBA Anwar Kamal, President LBA, Manzoor Qadir, member Pakistan Bar Council Hafiz Abdul Rahman Ansari, Secretary SCBA Muhammad Amin Javed Chaudhry, Secretary LHCBA Rana Asadullah and others also spoke on the occasion.
Hamid Khan said, lawyers’ community throughout the country was united behind the leadership of Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan. However, he said, certain elements wanted to defeat lawyers’ movement by creating rift among the community but, he added, they were bound to defeat themselves.
He said Lawyers’ Representatives Conference on July 19 last was targeted by such elements to divide the advocates but they were failed. He said the Pakistan Bar Council had announced conference a month ago and the ill wishers of the movement rose to criticise it just a day before to divide the lawyers when in the meantime, they had no objection to the conference.
Denying acceptance of Justice Dogar as CJP he said, any lawyer admitting him so was not a lawyer in fact. Hamid Khan said Justice Dogar and Pervez Musharraf were one; both not acceptable to the nation.