The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Tuesday has finally given one week ultimatum to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down otherwise it would extend its protests to the whole country.
The office-bearers of LHBA said this during a press conference here at the Lahore Bar office where they also demanded strict action against the federal ministers over their controversial statements. The representatives of the LHCBA said that after the Joint Investigation Team’s report, PM Sharif had no moral justification to remain in the office.
LHCBA President Zulfiqar Ali Chaudhary, Vice-President Rashid Lodhi, Secretary Aamir Saeed Rawn, Finance Secretary Zaheer Butt and others were also present on the occasion. President Zulfiqar Ali Chaudhary said that the Joint Investigation Team’s findings endorsed the stance of the lawyers that PM should resign from his office over Panama case. Zulfiqar said the strict action should be taken against the federal ministers who were making conspiracies against the JIT and Supreme Court, particularly Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal. ‘Sharif family had proven itself very dangerous for the development and prosperity of the country’, he added.
Bar’s VP Rashid Lodhi said that Sharif family had established dictatorship in the country in the name of democracy. Appreciating the JIT members, he said that though it was a tough mandate to probe into Sharif’s family’s assets but JIT completed its job within time which has set a precedent. Rashid said that they would widen their protest for PM’s resignation and if he refused to do so they would go to the Prime Minister House.
Bar Secretary Aamir Saeed Rawn was of the view that it was very awful that PM and his family members submitted fake documents before the Supreme Court. He demanded Nawaz Sharif must be booked over submitting fake documents before the court. He said that the state has become bankrupt owing to ruling family’s corruption
The bar leaders demanded of the authorities concerned to put the names of the Sharif family on Exit Control List so that they could not escape, and vowed to continue their struggle for supremacy of law. They said they were united for honour and integrity of the state institutions, especially the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Last week, the bar leaders announced that they would wait for the JIT report for their future discourse regarding the movement they had set against the ruling party over Sharif family’s alleged involvement in making foreign assets.
