Reference against Justice Isa: SCBA secretary distances himself from SCBA president's stance

Supreme Court Bar Association's (SCBA) Secretary Azmatullah Chaudhry on Tuesday distanced himself from the stance taken by President SCBA Amanullah Kanrani on a reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa.
While addressing a press conference Azmatullah said, "The views being expressed by the president do not represent the whole bar." He however called for early disposal of all references pending before the SJC.
He said the country was passing through an era of accountability and nobody was above the law. He said there might be no accountability in future if the ongoing process was jeopardized. Chaudhry said Justice Isa was equally respectable for whole legal fraternity, however the matter of his reference was 'sub-judice' before the council, which was a constitutional forum.
The Secretary stated that matter of the reference had not been discussed so far in any meeting of the bar's executive committee. He said Kanrani had been giving an impression that the decision to observe protest against the Supreme Judicial Council's proceedings was a consensus one.
He claimed that few people had been agitating the matter out of context for personal interests only. SCBA vice president on Punjab seat Malik Karamat Awan, four members of the bar's executive committee including Liaqat Ali Tareen, Yousaf Mughal, Samina Durrani and Javed Chaudhry were also present in the press conference.