into bar associations: KBA Friday, October 10, 2008 By Shamim Bano Karachi The members of Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) should be denied entry into any bar associations of the country. None will address the ongoing lawyers’ movement for the independence of judiciary and the restoration of deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammed Choudhry. A resolution to this effect was passed by President Karachi Bar Association (KBA) Mehmood-ul-Hasan which was adopted unanimously at a general body meeting held at its Shuda-e-Punjab Hall in its weekly protest programme for Thursday. The decision to stop PBC members from entering and addressing bar associations was taken after the representatives of the PBC collected keys of the rooms adjacent to the PBC in Islamabad from CJP Justice Hamid Dogar. However, both the Chairman and Vice...
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