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LPP vows
to resist draconian Emergency
Lends full support to resisting judges
Hails lawyers for
taking up the fight
Lahore: The Labour
Party Pakistan (LPP) has strongly condemned the Musharraf regime for
imposing Emergency thus depriving the people of Pakistan of their
already-limited basic human and democratic rights.
The LPP Chairperson, Nisar Shah, and Secretary
General Farooq Tariq, in a joint statement issued here Saturday vowed to
resist the imposition of Emergency in collaboration with civil society
bodies, trade unions and opposition parties.
While lending full support to the resisting Supreme
Court judges and Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Ch., the LPP leaders
condemned Justice hameed Dogar for taking oath under new PCO saying: ‘
Regardless of the immediate outcome of the judges fight against the
generals, the resisting judges have deprived the Emergency of all its
justification’.
They said that it was unprecedented in the history
of Pakistan that judiciary had showed such a courage. ‘This resistance
also owes to the mass movement led by lawyers fraternity last summer
that humbled the Musharaff regime and chief justice was reinstated',’
they added.
They also hailed the Karachi lawyers for taking
lead in announcing to launch their struggle to fight back Emergency.
The LPP leaders appealed to activists, trade unions
and civil body organisations to join hands with resisting judges and
lawyers to rid the country of military regime.
They said: ‘Though the regime is likely to use
Taliban-occupation of certain districts in Frontier province as a
pretext to impose Emergency yet it is most likely that Emergency is
imposed to pre-empt a court ruling against Musharaff's re-election.
Emergency means that all basic democratic rights will be suspended while
courts would have their powers curtailed’.
‘Pakistan
has been in grip of political crisis and regime was facing growing mass
resentment. This Emergency is a desperate attempt to cling to power,’
they added.
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