By KUNA
Islamabad : Several lawyers were wounded when police fired tear-gas shells and baton-charged them for holding protests in Pakistan for the reinstatement of deposed judges last year by President Musharraf to get him re-elected for another five-year Presidential term by the outgoing assemblies.
Lawyers held protest demonstrations outside Sindh High Court building in Southern Karachi port city. Police to disperse them fired tear-gas shells and use baton-charge. While, according to police sources, several lawyers were also arrested.
In a telephonic address to the demonstrators the suspended Chief Justice, Iftikhra Muhammad Chauhdary, said that no individual has the power to amend the constitution and that there were no constitutional hurdle in restoring judges who refused to endorse Musharrafs emergency rule.
He said that he was deposed by an executive order and could be restored by an executive order. He added that judges could also be restored in the same way and there was no need of two-third parliamentary majority.
Lawyers have re-activated their movement with full swing after Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) came out as winners of Mondays elections. The two parties, likely to form coalition government, are likely to restore suspended judges however, they vary on their policies. Also, hundreds of lawyers and members of civil society groups held protests here Thursday afternoon outside Judges colony. Heavy police deployment had been made to prevent them from entering inside the colony.