*LAHORE: The Punjab Bar Council on Saturday demanded removal of JusticeQazi Faez Isa as judge of the Supreme Court.*
The Punjab Bar Council said this in a meeting in Lahore. The meetingapproved a resolution comprising six points in this regard.
The resolution demanded that Justice Qazi Faez Isa should be removed fromthe post of judge of the Supreme Court. It said that action should be takenunder Article 209 (V).
Qazi Faez Isa ‘targeted intelligence agencies’ in Faizabad sit-in case andviolated canons of law, it said.
“He should not have ‘ridiculed’ state institutions, especially PakistanArmy,” said the resolution.
The Punjab Bar Council said members of the judiciary should work ‘withinthe authorities bestowed upon them by the Constitution.
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The bar council termed removal of Justice Shaukat Aziz by the SupremeJudicial Council as a ‘correct measure’. It said Aziz had ‘targeted thejudiciary and security agencies.’
The resolution said the Karachi Bar Association’s challenging the decisionof removal of Shaukat Aziz was ‘beyond understanding.’
On March 30, a delegation of representatives of the Bar Councils from allover the country had called on Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa at theSupreme Court in Islamabad and discussed judicial issues.
The delegation had discussed a number of issues with the CJP, includingestablishment of model courts at district level and entertainment ofapplications of aggrieved persons by the sessions judges as ex-officiojustices of peace under section 22-A CrPC after approaching designatedsuperintendent of police (complaints), said a press release issued by Law &Justice Commission of Pakistan.
