[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″]PESHAWAR: The K-P Bar Council stated on Monday that attorneys would not show up in court on Wednesday (tomorrow) to protest the non-elevation of justices from the Peshawar High Court (PHC) to the Supreme Court.
The bar council stated in a news statement that the Supreme Court has a lot of vacancies, and that these vacancies should be filled by elevating judges from PHC.
The press release stated that because Pakistan is a federation, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, which serves as the Federation’s highest court of constitutional law, “must have a proper representation of all the federating units.”
The bar council noted that since 2017, there had been no elevation of judges from the K-P to the Supreme Court. It requested the Judicial Commission to resolve the issue immediately and redress the sense of deprivation of the province.
It added that in case any constitutional and legal issue arose between the Centre and the federating units or among the different federating units then a proper representation of the people of K-P was necessary in the Supreme Court to resolve such issue.
Announcing the bar’s plans for a boycott of the court proceedings across the province on March 1 (tomorrow), the K-P bar said that it would organise an all Pakistan lawyers convention on this issue very soon.
In Peshawar earlier this month, there was a protest march against the lawyers’ assault on the police lines.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
