Lawyers weekly protest losing momentum

LAHORE - Young lawyers the driving force behind the lawyers movement mostly shied away from the weekly rally on Thursday. The lawyers due to this factor failed to put up an impressive show.

The absence of young lawyers raised many eye-brows in legal as well as political circles who are eager to bring youth back to re-invigorate the movement that has been loosing its impact fast.

Most of the young lawyers belong to Lahore Bar Association but their participation in the rally has been minimised over a month particularly after the Long March.

Only few hundred lawyers rallied on The Mall to press their demand for the reinstatement of deposed judges despite the fact that a considerable number of them were present inside Karachi Shuhada Hall to listen the speech of deposed Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif.

Previously, a huge participation of LBA lawyers snowballed rallies into a mammoth one but now this feature has vanished from weekly protest as only dozens of advocates from LBA joined the rally.