Well.all I can say is that now is the turn of firstly the army,and then the judiciary,to be held accountable.The rogue elements in the former are responsible for 90% of Pakistan's ailments,and judiciary(Courts + Lawyers) is the upcoming menace.No institution should be allowed to outgrow their shoes,as we have been at the receiving end of this.Sometimes I feel we are only going to be resurrected after an initial destruction and carnage(like the French revolution)..Sub kuch khatam ho k dobara bne ga,or hopefully present status quo se behtr hi bne ga.I don't see any other way the state of the things is going to improve.

Agree with salick as these "Holy Cows" have pushed our country almost to the status of a failed nation.
People are desperate for change and anybody who will raise the slogan of change will be their hero. Even the institution of game is not spared by these holy cows and the whole world has seen that our great players are corrupt as well in line with other institutions. Yes, some sort of revolution is needed urgently here as the situation is ripe for change.

Another attack by the black coats !

Yesterday, they attacked the office of DCO at Toba Tek Singh and destroyed the office furniture and broke the widow panes, because the District Administration have got vacated the land occupied by the lawyers illegally on the name of their housing colony. It seems there is no difference between "Qabza Group" and these lawyers.

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bhai lawyers se related topic hai aur aap yahan bhi Army ko ghaseet laey ho.

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Now the Judges are also fed up ......

`Highhandedness` by lawyers forces judges to seek transfer | ePaper | DAWN.COM

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This is very much true.People from Bar Associations influence the lower judiciary and they get the Judgement as per their wishes.Now one can get any case won by only hiring President/Secretary of bar associations.

Dear Friends, first of all I condemn any act above Law. No one is above law and we, as Nation, have to respect the same.

A whole community is not responsible and accountable for any act of an individual. There are miscreants in every field of life. Are We, all Pakistanis, terrorists as regarded by Americans due to a few terrorists trained in Pakistan ?? it should be and obviously NO, then is the Lawyer Community responsible for an act of an individual ?? it should be and obviously NO.

And so for as your objection regarding acquittal, it’s not on the part of the Judiciary or the Lawyer Community but Prosecution, who has to prove its case above suspicion, as it is a settled principle of law that the benefit of any doubt in the case will go to the accused.

And Lastly, someone mentioned a rape case of Sialkot, I am a practicing Lawyer and the same case was conducted by My Chamber. It was held in this case that all the Medical Reports including DNA report were negative. the case was found planed and fake. The female (so called victim) was a habitual litigant and nominated in many FIR's specially kidnapped cases.The case was discharged by all the Honourable Judges unanimously.

Regards.

Harris Khalique

My first encounter with the highhandedness of the police goes back to the student days. I saw my friends, student political workers, picked up from the vicinity of the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, in the late 1980s. They were taken to the 555 Police Station in Saddar and tortured and interrogated. When some of us tried to visit them, a brawny policeman threatened us that we would also be shoved inside the lockup if we insisted on meeting the seditious students. At that time, a couple of young lawyers came to our rescue and we could get our fellow students bailed out after some days.
Many of our icons for democracy and human rights in the repressive years under General Zia and also during the years to come after that included lawyers like Aitzaz Ahsan, Munir A Malik, Asma Jehangir, Hina Jillani and Lateef Afridi. Many lawyers had set up special outfits for legal aid provision to weaker segments of society, bonded labour, peasants, urban poor, women who faced violence or those whose rights were usurped, and for bailing out and supporting journalists and political workers.
While there were many from that profession who sided with the powerful, indulged in inappropriate practices or used their legal expertise to fleece their clients, there were so many others who took a principled stand and worked side by side with the poor and the oppressed. Lawyers, in short, were seen as people who would help you protect your legal rights.
We want the police to reform as an institution and there are a few people in that department who are also committed to such reform. A number of initiatives are taken by both the governmental and non-governmental institutions to this end over the past few years. However, a major turn around remains dependent on the wider structural reform in the country and a change in our political culture. But things have changed in Pakistan in the recent years when it comes to the role of lawyers, within and outside the courts. As a citizen, it is not the police but a section of lawyers who you have to be afraid of more.
After garlanding the assassin, the lawyers threatened publicly that whoever dares to fight the case of Salmaan Taseer is likely to meet the same fate. Whatever political or religious opinion you subscribe to, is that really supporting the cause of justice? Then in the Supreme Court bar room, during a recess in the court hearing of the memo case, human rights activist and columnist Marvi Sirmed was harassed by senior lawyers. Not just that many of them have started banding together for promoting a certain kind of politics, they are forcefully trying to dominate other opinions. It wouldn’t have been so unbecoming if it were political workers belonging to the opposition, but some lawyers raised slogans against Aitzaz Ahsan for defending the prime minister in the contempt case.
Finally, what is happening with the police officers currently serving their sentences in Sahiwal jail on charges of throwing petrol bombs on a rally of lawyers in 2007 is rather alarming. First, they were denied access to any lawyer because the bar associations threatened that whoever takes the case faces the consequences. Then, after being sentenced by an ATC, their appeal in Lahore High Court remains unheard. The appeal case has been fixed before nine different benches but each time it is not heard because apparently the lawyers do not wish that to happen.
Mind you, some of these lawyers will become judges in future.

The writer is an Islamabad-based poet and author. Email: harris. khalique@gmail.com

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@ Rana sb

Sir, we know there are black sheep in every community and it is natural. The damage comes when the Number of black sheep increase beyond a reasonable limit and affacts the collective behaviour of that community.

So sad !

Another Judge was beaten by the "lawyers" in faisalabad yesterday as per newspaper reports as the judge had cancel the bail of an accused. He was beaten and dragged in the court room by the lawyer and his associates.

Now one can imagine the situation.

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