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By Younis Chandio
HYDERABAD: A group of lawyers of Hyderabad led by Allah Bachayo
Soomro, secretary general of High Court Bar Hyderabad and
Chowdhry Bashir Gujjar, president district bar association
Hyderabad, has announced that they would not receive deposed
Chief Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar on his arrival at Hyderabad
because those who have invited him had not taken them into
confidence.
Allah Bacahayo Soomro who is also deputy advocate general
of Sindh said that he is also divisional president of Peoples
Lawyers Forum which had taken decision that its members would
keep away from Justice Chaudhry’s reception and address.
He was addressing news conference here on Friday. He was accompanied
by Abdul Majid Bhatti, Mukhtar Khanzada, Fazal Qadir Memon
member Sindh Bar Council,Anwer Jatoi, Hameedullah Daheri,
Javed Siddiqui, Babu Abdullah Kazi, Muhammad Ali Shaikh also
deputy advocate general Sindh and others.
They said that 18 October was day of mourning for them as
on this day last year scores of innocent people were killed
and others injured in a bomb attack on procession of Shaheed
Benazir Bhutto at Karsaz Karachi when she returned from 8
year exile.
They said they would be observing black day on 18 October
and offer prayers for martyrs of that day as such how can
they participate in programs of Justice Chaudhry.
They said district bar and high court bar members who had
chalked out program of Justice Chaudhry had done it on their
own and one sided and had neither consulted them nor taken
them into confidence. Therefore they will keep away from his
program and boycott his reception and address.
However at time of their press conference another group of
lawyers led by Abdul Rehman Shaikh vice president High Court
Bar, Zahoor Baloch and others were chanting slogans in favour
of Justice Chaudhry “welcome chief welcome”. When
the group led by Allah Bachayo Soomro came down from press
club they also raised slogans of Jeay Benazir, Jeay Bhutto.
On intervention of senior lawyers no untoward incident took
place and both sides disbursed peacefully.
Deposed CJP Justice Chaudhry is due in Hyderabad on Saturday
where he is scheduled to address lawyers at civil court. |
