AJI vows to continue struggle for restoration of judiciary
By Khalid Amin

ISLAMABAD—The alliance of left wing political workers and intellectuals Awami Jamhoori Ittehad (AJI) has vowed to continue the struggle for restoration of the judiciary and boycott of elections under martial law.
Convenor of the Ittehad Jamil Abbasi in a press release has said that any political party that runs for elections under such conditions will be compromising on the basic principles that have guided the popular movement since March 9th and thereby playing a cruel joke on the people of Pakistan.
Jamil Abbasi has also said that the renewal of state repression in the form of trumped up criminal cases against journalists and political activists of the twin cities will serve only to intensify the struggle against dictatorship and its stooges.
He said that in the coming days traders will also start participating in protests arranged by journalists, lawyers and students. The movement for the restoration of the judiciary and the permanent relegation of the military to the barracks will not stop at any cost no matter how long it takes, he added.
Jamil Abbasi also said that the involvement of the working class in this movement will only take place when big political parties take up issues such as unemployment, inflation, health and education rather than negotiating with the military establishment for a share of power in the anti-people political system that currently prevails.
He warned that if political parties did not own the movement as their own then polarization between anti- establishment and pro-establishment forces would increase and the growing contradictions could only result in an implosion in the wider society.