Saturday, January 24, 2009

Caravan of deposed CJ heading toward PBC


LAHORE: The caravan of deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is heading toward the Punjab Bar Council (PBC) where the deposed CJ would address lawyers’ convention.

Earlier, Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was accorded a warm welcome by the Punjab government, lawyers and workers of various political parties upon reaching at the airport. Punjab Assembly’s Deputy Speaker Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan, President of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Ali Ahmed Kurd, former SCBA President Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan and deposed Supreme Court Judge, Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday received the deposed CJ at the VVIP lounge.

Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah reached Lahore with Justice Iftikhar. The Airport Security Force (ASF) personnel resorted to baton charge when workers of PML (N), Tehreek-e-Insaaf, Jamaat-e-Islami and Khaksar Tehreek tried to enter the lounge.

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