No CJP except Justice Mansoor to be accepted: Hamid Khan

ISLAMABAD: The legal fraternity on Friday vowed not to accept any Chief Justice of Pakistan appointed other than senior most judge Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and announced that soon they are going to form a Lawyers Action Committee on the issue.

Addressing a press conference here outside Supreme Court, senior jurists Hamid Khan and Abid Shahid Zubairi with other lawyers said that they would not accept any judge as the CJP other than senior most judge.

Hamid Khan said that the Constitutional Package was not acceptable to them, adding that the draft of the proposed package should be shared with the Bar Associations and their input should be sought.

He further said that the government was bent upon attacking the Constitution while the judgement of the Supreme Court on reserved seats was not being implemented in letter and spirit. If the Election Commission failed to comply with Supreme Court’s July 12 judgement, they will not spare the electoral body, Hamid Khan said and warned the chief election commissioner and other ECP members of consequences.

Abid S Zubairi endorsed the viewpoint of Hamid Khan and said that the ECP was bent upon using delaying tactics in implementing the Supreme Court judgement on reserved seats. “Still, it is being echoed that the reserved seats would be distributed as booty among the government and its allied parties,” Zubairi said, adding that traitors of the country should be proceeded against under Article 6 of the Constitution. He said that East Pakistan was separated from us when 1956 Constitution was damaged.