Lawyers with the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) and the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) are observing a strike today against the sit-ins held by the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in Islamabad saying the campaigns were putting the parliamentary democratic system in peril.
Lawyers from Sindh and Punjab are also scheduled to hold rallies and sit-ins in several areas of Lahore and Karachi against the protests by PTI and PAT.
The decision to hold a countrywide strike was taken at a joint meeting of the premier lawyers’ bodies — the PBC and the SCBA — who took exception to Imran Khan’s call for civil disobedience urging the PTI chief to recall it.
The meeting had urged the political parties to make all endeavors to resolve the political crisis without compromising the constitutional and legal norms.
