Each of state organs must avoid interference in other's jurisdiction: Chief Justice addresses Sahiwal Bar

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has declared that supremacy of law is inevitable in the country and judiciary, legislative assembly and administration will have to work with their respective jurisdiction and avoid interference in one another's designated limits.
Addressing a function of Sahiwal Bar Council (SBC) here he said justice can be delayed but cannot be denied, adding "the SBC has supported the struggle for the supremacy of judiciary with more sacrifices than any other bar council in Pakistan". He said that justice will be provided to the lawyers, who were tortured during the struggle.
He thanked the citizens of Sahiwal for welcoming him so warmly. He praised Sahiwal lawyers for rendering sacrifices for the cause of independence of judiciary. He also read out a list of lawyers who sustained burns during a torch-bearing rally when police attacked them on May 4.
Lawyers movement is for the change of system and if they failed, a revolution will overtake. People have now awakened to the oppression they have been suffering over the last 60 years. The masses have decided to stand up against the oppression of the dictators and now they would either succeed or lay down their life.
On this occasion, prime lawyer of CJ Iftikhar, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan said the purpose of lawyers movement is to restore Iftikhar Chaudhry as the Chief Justice of Pakistan. He praised the political parties for their role in the movement.
Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan in his address said lawyers were fighting for a great cause and political workers too were not lagging behind them and were suffering jail and torture.
But, he said, they both have to continue their journey, which he said is restoration of the Chief Justice of Pakistan to his office first step and second, evolution of a system which guaranteed justice to everyone. He said any party coming to power would not be able to change that social contract or deny the same to the people.
Aitzaz said they have taken to that course for the sake of the people who were contributing to the lawyers' movement in a big way. He said CJP provided justice to the poor at their doorsteps no matter how far a person was living.
Our judiciary, he said, need to become independent but that would not be achieved until judges themselves become mentally independent. We want to a bring a system wherein every judge would feel himself Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, and instead of feeling himself B-team of the dictator, would think himself as A-team of the masses.
Aitzaz praised the role being played by media in the lawyers' movement but at time same condemned the attitude of the cable operators, who, he said, switched off channels.
Munir A Malik, President Supreme Court Bar Association, in his address said that the nation was at a juncture where it had to get back its right to govern. He underscored the need for unity in lawyers ranks, however, giving a caution to them of the black sheep among them.
He said lawyers wanted a system wherein every get justice. Their movement, he said, had changed mind of the people and now the judiciary should also change its own.
Former vice chairman, Pakistan Bar Council, Ali Ahmad Kurd in his address said that Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had removed the fear generals had been infusing in the masses for over the last 60 years. Instead, he said, now the generals were afraid of the masses who did not want Pakistan to be as their 'hunting ground' anymore.
He said five generals called Justice Chaudhry to Army House and forced him to resign but he refused not to budge to their pressure. He further said that the CJP changed history of the country and now people were emboldened, he added. He said the generals must open their eyes to the public aspirations and if they failed to do so, a revolution will overtake. He warned against bringing in any martial law or emergency in the country and added, if such a measure was pursued, their movement would resist tooth and nail.
PPP Senator Sardar Latif Khan Khosa said today the masses had resolved to either get back their rule from the dictator or to end itself. He said the present system was dictatorial presidential where neither media nor the parliament was independent.
He challenged Musharraf to get himself elected through the present assemblies and added, they would resign from the assembly in that case. He expressed serious concern over the missing of names in the electoral rolls and announced to move against the election commissioner in this behalf. How can voters in such a large be disenfranchised, he posed a question.