The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Monday called upon all provincial bar councils, bar associations and members of the bar across the country to observe ‘Iftikhar Day’ on Thursday (January 31), to express their support to the cause of independent judiciary and rule of law. In a press statement, Mirza Aziz Akbar Baig, the PBC vice-chairman, asked the lawyers to arrange protest rallies, meetings and demonstrations on Thursday. “The legal fraternity reiterates its pledge to continue struggle for the restoration of deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and all other judges of the superior courts, who did not take oath under illegitimate Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO),” he added.
NewQuettaHotel: I think civil society(specially students),media and power hungry politicians should also join the effort.
