Kh Sharif, Aitzaaz, Nasira Javed and others banned from entry in LHC bar

Rendering an ugly turn to the ongoing clash between lawyers and judiciary, Lahore Bar Association slapped a lifetime entry ban on Chief Justice Lahore High Court Khawaja Sharif besides a temporary bar on his two sons Kahwaja Bilal and Khawaja Latif, Aitzaz Ahsan, Justice (r) Nasira Iqbal, Hamid Khan and Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah in the Bar. The said ban also included Supreme Court Bar Association head Qazi Anwar and Justice (r) Tariq. Also, the Bar session, chaired by Bar President Advocate Sjid Bashir, adopted a unanimous resolution against the abovesaid persons for siding with the judiciary in the continued row between the two factions of the judicial system.Multan and Hafizbad Bars also followed suit and banned Chief Justice Lahore from their respective Bars. At a meeting of Lahore Bar Association held at Iwan-e-Adl, the blackcoats vowed to make the police accountable for violence and shelling over the lawyers on Friday. The lawyers prevented media persons from coverage of the meeting and beaten a cameraman and reporter of a news channel and snatched camera from them. On the other hand, the lower courts judges in Lahore went to strike after District Judge Syed Zawar Hussain was sent to leave. In Lahore around 120 civil judges, senior civil judges, session judges and district and session judges have announced strike over sending District and Sessions Judge Syed Zawar Hussain on leave. They said if the practice of sending judges on leave on pressure of the lawyers will be continued, the judges will remain under pressure and could not perform their duties properly.