The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed dismay over strikes of legal fraternity, observing private law colleges are producing bar members instead of lawyers in the country. Resuming the hearing of bail matters, a two-member bench of Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice Qazi Faiz Isa remarked those lawyers who failed to turn up before the court under the pretext of strike are presumed to deny constitutional system.
He further remarked that a judge's salary for a strike day is proscribed in his opinion. Justice Qazi Faiz Isa said when he was chief justice of Balochistan High Court, no strike of lawyers was allowed even for a single day because the judiciary has to ensure dispensation of justice.
Responding to a lawyer who said that strikes are creating bad impression about the legal fraternity, Justice Qazi Faiz Isa remarked lawyers movement for restoration of judiciary had an objective of rule of law, adding there is hell of difference between movement for rule of law and the lawyers' strikes.
He observed if lawyers and afterward prosecutors hold strikes then there would be a practice that judges will also go on strikes, adding that without getting oneself correct, no corrective measures could be taken in a system. Later, the bench accepted bail after arrest application of Waqas against surety bond of Rs 100,000 who had been arrested by district Vehari police under prohibitory clauses for injuring a person.
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