ISLAMABAD: As the ruling coalition goes ahead with its plan to stage a sit-in against the judiciary for allegedly favouring PTI chief Imran Khan, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has urged political parties to refrain from such a move.
And to pre-empt any untoward incident, the Supreme Court’s registrar, Ishrat Ali, on Saturday called a meeting of the Islamabad administration and police for a briefing on security arrangements.
The protest was announced by JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who also heads the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) alliance, on Friday. The sit-in has been planned at Constitution Avenue in Islamabad, outside the Supreme Court building, on Monday, when the top court is set to start hearing an Election Commission’s petition seeking to revisit its verdict on the Punjab polls date.
The PML-N has announced that its chief organiser, Maryam Nawaz, has already arrived in Islamabad to take part in the sit-in.
In a statement, SCBA President Abid S. Zuberi and Secretary Muqtedir Akhtar Shabbir requested the ruling political parties not to hold the protest or take action that may undermine the integrity and functioning of the judiciary.
They also called upon the political stakeholders to reduce the political temperature in the best interest of the country’s progress.
The statement said the bar stood with the rule of law, supremacy of the Constitution and the independence of judiciary and had extended their unwavering support and solidarity in protecting the Supreme Court against the announced protest on Monday by political parties.
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