ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has decided to observe boycott of superior courts only on Thursday every week in view of the problems being faced by litigants and has asked lawyers throughout the country to appear before courts in cases on five days every week.
According to a PBC press release issued here on Monday, the top body of the lawyer community also decided that lawyers would observe token boycott only for one hour from 10.30 to 11.30am every day.
The PBC said the decisions were taken in public interest, keeping in view hardship of litigants and the need for minimizing boycott duration.
According to the decisions, all bar associations in the country shall hold general meetings and take out processions and rallies outside the court premises every Thursday.
Every Bar Association shall form a hunger strike camp where at least two members shall sit in hunger strike for at least two hours every day.
No Bar Association shall invite any PCO judge to bar functions and office bearers of all Bar Associations shall boycott all functions of PCO judges.
The Council shall hold national conventions at Islamabad and the provincial capitals to advance the cause of restoration of judiciary of 2nd November 2007. First convention will be held on February 9 at Islamabad which will be followed by a march by lawyers to the residence of Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
PBC also passed various resolutions including one demanding the immediate release of Aitzaz Ahsan, President Supreme Court Bar Association, Ali Ahmed Kurd and Tariq Mehmood and other political prisoners in the country.
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