LAHORE: The legal fraternity would observe complete boycott of court proceedings on Wednesday (today) to protest against police torture on lawyers and their arrest on November 5, 2007, two days after the imposition of emergency.
Lahore High Court Bar Association Secretary Rana Asadullah Khan has announced that no lawyer would appear in any court to show their solidarity with the movement for the restoration of all the deposed judges and to condemn the brutal acts of the police against the lawyers.
The LHCBA will hold its general house meeting at 10 am to make a strategy for their protest movement. Senior most deposed judge of the Lahore High Court Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif will address the lawyers.
The lawyers have also planned to burn effigies of former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, former SSP (Operations) and former LHC chief justice to condemn their role against the legal fraternity. The Lahore Bar Association, which already has locked the courts, would also observe complete boycott of courts and would hold its general house meeting.
