Punjab Bar Council rejects high court’s sesquicentennial celebrations

Demands dissolving supervisory committee

LAHORE: The Punjab Bar Council has rejected the sesquicentennial celebrations of the Lahore High Court, terming it a joke with the nation. Council’s Vice Chairman Chaudhry Muhammad Hussain said that no such event had been held for the last 97 years, and now celebrating the 150th anniversary was nothing but a sign of ostentation.

He was addressing a meeting, attended by Council’s Executive Committee Chairman Mumtaz Mustafa, members Jamil Asghar Bhatti, Munir Hussain Bhatti, Abdul Samad Khan Basariya, Daud Ahmad Vains, Aurangzeb Marral, Zeeshan Mirza, Khwaja Qaisar Butt, Sheikh Abdul Ghaffar, Khalid Khan Buzdar, Malik Sarood Ahmad and Haroon Ershad Jangua.

The meeting discussed participation in the sesquicentennial celebrations of the LHC. It approved a resolution with consensus that the illegal supervisory committee, formed to make preparations for the anniversary, should be dissolved and lawyers’ respect should be preserved.

The resolution demanded that character assassination of lawyers should be stopped, corruption mafia should be eliminated from judiciary, complaints pending with the Member Inspection Team (MIT) should be decided immediately, and the references sent to the Supreme Judicial Council should be decided at the earliest. The meeting demanded that the LHC chief justice’s recommendations for appointing high court judges should be rejected.