Benazir ask reconstitution of EC:Thousands lawyers and politicians arrested

Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto a reign of terror against protesting lawyers and journalists must end. she said she had conveyed to PML (N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif through Mr Ishaq Dar her desire to wage a common struggle if the emergency was imposed.

One minister who attended a cabinet meeting chaired by Shaukat Aziz, the Prime Minister, said: "The issue of holding elections was discussed at length... I feel that the elections may be delayed by two months. There will not be a delay of elections for longer than three months. There is no final decision."

PML (N) president Shahbaz Sharif talking to the media here on Monday said that time had now come for all political parties to shun their differences and get together on one platform against “Musharraf’s illegal, unconstitutional and immoral dictatorial rule”.
Benazir hoped that all democratic parties would unite to emancipate the people from the yoke of dictatorship and the menace of terrorism and extremism.“We strongly condemn the violence against lawyers and media people. This force and brutality should be kept away from our society,” she said and called for immediate release of all political prisoners,

Ms Bhutto said that the suspension of Constitution was an attack on Pakistan and threat to its security.

With the Pormulugation of the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) deposed Supreme court judges were ousted and were detained at their houses. General Pervez Musaraff have arrested thousands of prominent lawyers and politicians after declaration of state of emergency .

A seven-member bench of the Supreme Court declared the Army Chief’s step unconstitutional and refused to take oath under the PCO..

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and other judges including Justice Bhagwandas, Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, Justice Sardar Raza Khan, Justice Falak Sher, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Tasaddique Hussain Jillani, Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed, Justice Chaudhry Ejaz Ahmed, Justice Syed Jamshed Ali, Justice Hamid Ali Mirza and Justice Ghulam Rabbani have been detained at their homes.

Chief Justice of Sindh High Court Mr. Justice Sabeehuddin, Justice Sarmad Jalal Usmani, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and others have also been put under house arrest.

Lahore High Court Judges that refused to take oath under the PCO are Justice Khwaja Muhammad Sharif, Justice Mian Najm-uz-Zaman, Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, Justice Moulvi Anwar-ul-Haq, Justice Sair Ali, Justice Mian Hamid Farooq, Justice Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry, Justice M.A. Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Javed Sarfaraz, Justice Jahangir Arshad, Justice Shaikh Azmat Saeed, Justice Muhammad Ata Bandial and Justice Iqbal Hameed-ur-Rahman.

Police have also arrested President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, former president of SCBA Munir Malik, Ali Ahmed Kurd, Justice (Rtd) Tariq Mehmood, Sahibzada Anwar Hameed, President Lahore High Court Bar Ahsan Bhon, President Sindh High Court Bar Abrar Hassan, President Lahore Bar Association Syed Muhammad Shah, President Karachi Bar Iftikhar Javed Qazi, President Balochistan High Court Bar Hadi Shakil Advocate and other prominent lawyers.

Police on Monday raided a printing press belonging to Pakistan's biggest-selling Jang newspaper group amid tough curbs on the media imposed under the state of emergency, officials said.

US President George W. Bush on Monday strongly urged Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf to end a state of emergency imposed in the country and "restore democracy as quickly as possible." "We expect there to be elections as soon as possible, and for the president to remove his military uniform,"

Former ISI chief Gen. (Rtd) Hameed Gul, and dozens prominent politicians including Javed Hashmi and Khwaja Asif of Muslim League (N), Asfandyar Wali, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Balochistan National Party leader Akhtar Hussain Lango and Jamat Islami’s Munawwar Hassan have also been detained.

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