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LAHORE: Head of Pakistan's Supreme Court bar association Aitzaz Ahsan has said, If we want entire judicial system could be jammed but we did no do so keeping in view the plight of people.
A firebrand lawyer leader stated this while addressing his first press conference after his release.
He called for President Pervez Musharraf to step down; a day after authorities freed him from nearly three months of detention.
Aitzaz Ahsan was first jailed and then kept under house arrest after Musharraf declared a state of emergency on November 3.
Authorities on Thursday night had served the silver-haired former minister with a fresh detention order for another 30 days -- but then withdrew it at the last minute and freed him.
"We demand that President Pervez Musharraf steps down because his presence is causing suicide attacks and promoting acts of terror in the country," Ahsan said in a speech Friday to 1,000 lawyers in Lahore.
"Our struggle for the restoration of democracy and an independent judiciary will continue. I appeal to all bar associations to actively take part in the struggle to end dictatorship."
Ahsan predicted the former ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q party would be defeated in general elections on February 18, and that if it was not, it would be proof the polls were rigged.
He also urged Musharraf to stop leveling allegations of corruption against Pakistan's former chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who remains under house arrest in Islamabad.
Musharraf suspended Chaudhry from his post on misconduct charges in March, setting off months of political turmoil that saw judges and lawyers take to the streets in protest.
The Supreme Court ordered Chaudhry's reinstatement after a legal campaign led by Ahsan, but he was later sacked and put under house arrest when Musharraf imposed the emergency in November.
Opponents accuse Musharraf of sacking Chaudhry to head off a Supreme Court verdict that appeared likely to overturn his victory in a presidential election in October.
Ahsan served as interior minister in the late Benazir Bhutto's first tenure as Pakistani prime minister from 1988 to 1990.
A firebrand lawyer leader stated this while addressing his first press conference after his release.
He called for President Pervez Musharraf to step down; a day after authorities freed him from nearly three months of detention.
Aitzaz Ahsan was first jailed and then kept under house arrest after Musharraf declared a state of emergency on November 3.
Authorities on Thursday night had served the silver-haired former minister with a fresh detention order for another 30 days -- but then withdrew it at the last minute and freed him.
"We demand that President Pervez Musharraf steps down because his presence is causing suicide attacks and promoting acts of terror in the country," Ahsan said in a speech Friday to 1,000 lawyers in Lahore.
"Our struggle for the restoration of democracy and an independent judiciary will continue. I appeal to all bar associations to actively take part in the struggle to end dictatorship."
Ahsan predicted the former ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q party would be defeated in general elections on February 18, and that if it was not, it would be proof the polls were rigged.
He also urged Musharraf to stop leveling allegations of corruption against Pakistan's former chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who remains under house arrest in Islamabad.
Musharraf suspended Chaudhry from his post on misconduct charges in March, setting off months of political turmoil that saw judges and lawyers take to the streets in protest.
The Supreme Court ordered Chaudhry's reinstatement after a legal campaign led by Ahsan, but he was later sacked and put under house arrest when Musharraf imposed the emergency in November.
Opponents accuse Musharraf of sacking Chaudhry to head off a Supreme Court verdict that appeared likely to overturn his victory in a presidential election in October.
Ahsan served as interior minister in the late Benazir Bhutto's first tenure as Pakistani prime minister from 1988 to 1990.
MUSHARRAF might FALL.
had anyone seen them or had any of you again seen that mamoth protests on roads after PPP struck a deal with the government????
