ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Sunday announced that thelegal fraternity will observe a nationwide strike on July 2 in protestagainst the filing of referencec against senior Supreme Court (SC) judge,Justice Qazi Faez Isa, and the Sindh High Court’s Justice K K Agha.
The decision was conveyed by PBC Vice Chairman Syed Amjad Shah. He saidlawyers across the country would hold protest meetings in their bar rooms,while lawyers’ representatives would assemble at the Supreme Court premisesin Islamabad.
Shah said a meeting of the joint action committee would also be convened atthe PBC office at the SC Islamabad building on the same day.
On June 14, lawyers from bar councils across the country staged a protestoutside the SC and burned copies of the references filed against JusticeIsa and Justice Agha over non-disclosure of foreign properties in theirwealth statements.
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Wearing black bands in solidarity with the accused judges, the SupremeCourt Bar Council (SCBA) led the protest.
