Pakistan Peoples Party Central Punjab General Secretary Hassan Murtaza said the government wants to shackle the nation, which is stuck in inflation
LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party Central Punjab General Secretary Syed Hassan Murtaza has said that the government wants to shackle the nation, which is stuck in inflation, constitutional violations, and unemployment, with what chains? Today, no one can speak, even today political workers are picked up and extrajudicial killings are carried out.
A pistol is firing in someone’s navel, but when a child of an elder is caught, the pistol hangs with the navel. Lawyers have to get the nation out of this constitutional crisis. He was addressing a seminar on the topic of habitual offenders bill at Karachi Shuhada Hall organized by the People’s Lawyers Forum Punjab as a special guest.
Renowned columnist and anchorperson Sohail Warraich, Abid Saqi, analyst Mehmal Sarfraz, Professor Syed Azeem, Malik Imran Khokhar, Asif Baloch and others also addressed the seminar, while Mudassar Riaz performed the duties of stage secretary. On this occasion, President P. LF Punjab Raheel Kamran Cheema, Shakeel Pasha, Rao Khalid Ahmed, Azim Hafeez, Rana Saim, Gulfam Sarosh, Iftikhar Gujjar, Qamar Khan, Iqra Umar, Arif Khan, Rana Iftikhar, and a large number of lawyers were present.
Hassan Murtaza said that it is an honor to talk to the Legal Fraternity, you were the vanguard of the democracy we were fighting for. He said that perhaps the shadow of dictatorship is hovering over you today too, a dictator publicly hanged political workers, today the same mindset is coming to our parliament in the form of legislation.
The circumstances show that this company does not seem to be working. Sohail Warraich said that lawyers are the custodians of democracy, constitution and law, July 5 is not just the end of the Bhutto government. Journalists, lawyers and workers also died on that day. In the 70s assembly, there were 80% lawyers who were revolutionaries. Bring it. Today, there are one or two percent lawyers in the cabinet.
Today, our situation is that the CCD targets anyone without due process. The movement of Bhutto and Bibi Shaheed was not just a campaign for the freedom of a political party but of all classes. Lawyers are the pillars of democracy. At least hold a demonstration against this bill. He said that every evil starts with killing the bad and ends with the destruction of the good. Here, people gather, there is hope for politics, law and democracy.
Abid Saqi said that the eyes of those who look at the history of the rulers who are in power are closed. Today, states around the world are afraid of their people, they are enemies of the people. It is a law and should be opposed and resisted. Analyst Mehmal Sarfaraz said that he is surprised that the lawmakers did not raise any objection to this bill. If our lawmakers had read this bill first, this situation would not have arisen.
He said that this bill is even more frightening than the previous Goonda Act. The government will continue to do this until we challenge it. Professor Syed Azeem of LUMS University said that this bill is a new form of Prevento Police Act. The new law has been given from the courts to the administration and this bill is a law to turn suspicion into a crime. Syed Azeem said that the judiciary has weakened the legislature from Yousaf Raza to the Panama case.
All this will be rolled back, for which we will have to take the freedom to make laws through the judiciary. Addressing the seminar, Azeem Hafeez, Asif Baloch, Malik Imran Khokhar said that July 5, 1977, was the day of the overthrow of a popular government.
History is a witness that personalities can be eliminated, ideologies No, he added that the legal community is the protector of our constitutional and human rights in this country.
Reported By: Staff Reporter I Lahore
