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Emaad.qureshi@gmail.com Black By Emaad Qureshi

Shame on you! Shame on what you are doing in the name of law and independence of judiciary. A movement started on 09th march 2007 was for the independence of judiciary , for real democracy and it was indeed a noble cause but now it seems that it is hijacked by some black sheeps who have some hidden agenda. Professionals in black coats should know that who are these black sheeps in black coats.
This is very serious problem because it is matter of our national prestige, this is not just bad for lawyers,after this incident whole image of country is at stake. Whole world is laughing at us, they are saying that a person in black coat who is supposed to be guardian of law and symbol of justice is busy beating politicians and burning cars then how can he guarantee justice for normal citizens?.
What was fault of that old man Mr. sher afgan who was just visiting court to meet his lawyer. One thing is noticeable that President Pakistan bar association Ahtizaaz ahsan who is a very respectable person among lawyers was stopping them but they weren’t even listening to him on protest he has resigned from his presidency of Pakistan bar association.
This is also a test for new Government that how will they deal this issue. They have to bring perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice.
Going back in the time,we find one or two incidents in which some lawyers have done this type of acts before. First was when lawyer Naeem bokhari was beaten by some miscreants in the dress of lawyers right in centre of Rawalpindi district court August last year. Other incident is spraying on Pakistan Government`s advocate Ahmed raza kasuri right at the gate of Supreme Court when he was going to hear the case of illegibility of President Mushraff September last year.
There is another incident which happened in Karachi just one day after incident of sher afgan .According to eyewitnesses this was fight between two groups of lawyers who were ist protesting against the mishandling of Sher afgan by group of lawyers in Lahore, one thing which is very sad and condemnable is that lawyers have taken law in their hands and burned cars and buses as they were some kind of gangster, no one should be allowed to destroy public property. These type of incidents and especially the incident which happened in Lahore with Doctor Sher afgan niazi is a black spot on the face of Pakistani nation.
As pointed by some political analysts if it is conspiracy against democracy then Government should deal with this conspiracy with iron hands, because this is matter of National prestige.

Writer is Editor of Online magazine “Counter Attack”