Kh Asif and Kh Saad have disqualified after criticizing on Army: PML-Q Lawyers convention

Lahore: Pakistan Muslim League (PML) President and former Prime Minister Senator Ch Shujat Hussain has said that those raising noise over Article 6 should also read Article 63 (g)which clearly states that any parliamentarian who tries to defame the judiciary and the armed forces or uses derogatory language, he will be disqualified from membership of the parliament.

This such a big gathering here today of the protectors of the country and law was ample proof of thriving and throbbing of our party, PML was not defeated by votes but by the Returning Officers, we will not allow Protection of Pakistan Bill to be passed in this form, Legal Cell has been established in the Muslim League House for providing legal assistance to the poor and destitute people, he added.

He said this while addressing a grand lawyers’ convention at the Muslim League House here today which was largely attended by prominent lawyers from all over the province.

Ch Shujat Hussain said that first requirement of law and justice was that all should be kept and seen at equal level without any prejudice, not that whatever article of the Constitution favours one it should be thrust upon the opponent and shut eyes from which ever article was against one, why the govt not proceeding legally against such ministers to disqualify them under Article 63(g) who were publicly admitting that they had delivered such speech against the army and we were taking revenge. He said that we would not have regretted if we had lost the elections through votes, all know that if any commission was set up or inquiry held at any time then every bag to be opened would give the same results which came in Karachi.

Continuing, Ch Shujat Hussain said, the reports about reorganization of the party as given by Punjab office-bearers Ch Zaheeruddin Khan and Muhammad Basharat Raja after visiting the districts, it was clear that our party was very much present at the grass root level and it should be made more active. He said that he expected from the PML Lawyers Wing that where the govt fails in ensuring supremacy of the Constitution and law there the lawyers should play their constitutional role.

Ch Shujat Hussain said that it was welcome indeed that the present Chief Justice of Pakistan has put provision of justice at lower as his first priority. He said that we should all try to make Pakistan a welfare state as envisioned by the Quaid-i-Azam where all citizens including the minorities should be equal and the State should protect life and property of everyone. He expressed the hope that the Chief Justice would take practical steps including setting up of a special cell to save the Overseas Pakistanis costly properties from forcible occupation by the “Qabza Groups”.

The convention was participated by prominent lawyers in large number from all over the province. On the stage were seated Aslam Zaar, Asif Cheema, Dr Khalid Ranjha, Ch Anwar Bhinder, Mian Munir, Malik Shakeel Sikander, Engineer Shehzad Elahi, Qamar Hayat Kathia, Abdullah Yousuf and other leaders while Alamgir advocate, Kamil Ali Agha, Muhammad Basharat Raja and Ch Zaheeruddin Khan also addressed the convention.

Lashing out at the present govt the PML leaders said that even the judges were saying that people were not being provided daily use articles and fundamental rights, according to the superior judiciary only in Punjab the accused were acquitted in 90 per cent cases due to defective performance of police and prosecution. They said that due to ending of legal measures of tenure of Ch Parvez Elahi the people today were facing that neither roti was available in Punjab nor employment nor there was protection of life and property. They said that election of Muslim Leaguers representatives in the elections of bar associations was the proof of good work done during our tenure.

Resolutions moved by Musharraf Ali Khan, Rana Alim, Saadia Khalid, Kamil Ali Agha, Sardar Abdul Rashid and Rana Zafar Ahmad Khan were unanimously passed by the convention wherein the Protection of Pakistan Bill was rejected, murders of lawyers in Rawalpindi and Karachi were condemned and early arrest of the accused and appropriate conviction was demanded. Furthermore, leadership of Ch Parvez Elahi was paid rich tributes for the measures taken for the welfare and well-being of the lawyers during the period of 2002-1007 and restoration of the same was demanded.