SCBA to devise strategy for release of top lawyers

ISLAMABAD—Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) here Friday announced that it would devise a strategy for the release of its president and other former office bearers in a meeting at Peshawar on Jan 13. Briefing mediamen, SCBA Secretary General Amin Javed said they consider the house arrests of its president Aitzaz Ahsan, Ali Ahmed Kurd and Tariq Mehmood as illegal and unconstitutional.
He said however, they would not challenge their detention in any court of law. Amin Javed said besides, they would hold meetings with foreign delegates to apprise them about the situation.
“To create public awareness about the recent situation, SCBA will run judicial buses from all parts of the country,” he added. Secretary SCBA said their boycott of the courts will continue and a decision about its continuation or otherwise would also be decided in the next meeting.
He warned that appropriate action would be taken against lawyers who fail to abide by their decisions.
He also expressed grief over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and said SCBA consider it an attack on country’s solidarity.
SCBA Vice President Akhtar Khan, Additional Secretary Abdul Khurshid Awan, Zubair Khalid and Mussarat Hilali were also present during the press conference.—APP