Islamabad: The Pakistan Bar Council on the Supreme Court Procedure and Practice Bill 2023 has deplored the move to set up a bench and set the case for ‘urgent hearing’. A nationwide strike has been announced today.
The joint statement issued by Pakistan Bar Council Vice-Chairman Haroon-ul-Rashid Advocate and Chairman Executive Committee Hasan Raza Pasha said that the constitutional petitions against the Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Bill 2023 were decided in haste.
According to the Pakistan Bar Council, an 8-member larger bench has been constituted to hear the petitions against the legislation.
The Pakistan Bar Council said that keeping political issues aside, lawyers across the country will strike today and boycott the courts.
Statement by Fawad Chaudhry
On the other hand, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry has said that all major bar associations, including Supreme Court Bar, Lahore High Court Bar, Lahore Bar, have rejected the call of a group of Pakistan Bar Council to strike against the Supreme Court. Rejected.
He said on the social media website Twitter that all the lawyers will appear in the courts in the morning, the lawyers are with the constitution and the law.
The representative of lawyers across the country and the largest organization of Pakistan Bar Council, Vice Chairman Haroon Al Rasheed and Chairman Executive Committee Hasan Raza Pasha, elected heads of provincial bar councils, Vice Chairman Sindh Bar Council Azhar Abbasi, Vice Chairman Balochistan Bar Council Amanullah Kakar, Vice After mutual consultation with Chairman Punjab Bar Council Basharatullah Khan, Vice Chairman Islamabad Bar Council Aleem Abbasi and Vice Chairman Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council Zarbadshah, the Supreme Court of Pakistan unilaterally unilaterally passed the law related to the Supreme Court Procedure and Practice Bill 2023 before it came into force. And has rejected as regrettable the move to set up the controversial bench and fix the case for urgent hearing.
Lawyers unanimously termed the move as dividing the country’s highest court, agreeing that never in the judicial history of Pakistan has a law made by Parliament been prevented from coming into force.
Advocates warned that there would be strong resistance to stopping the legislation, which was brought in at the request of bar councils and associations across the country, before it took effect.
Through mutual consultation, it was also decided that the lawyers across the country will boycott the courts on Thursday, April 13, 2023 as a protest against this unfair move. Moreover, the meeting of elected representative leaders of Pakistan Bar Council across the country will be held on 17 April 2023 in Islamabad.
The lawyers clarified that the parliament has made this legislation in accordance with the resolution passed by the All Pakistan Lawyers Convention held in Lahore on October 12, 2019, which the lawyers’ community will vigorously resist any attempt to prevent its implementation.
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