Lawyers stage anti-Musharraf rally in Lahore

More than 2,000 lawyers rallied here on Thursday to press their demands for the reinstatement of judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf.
The lawyers, joined by civil society activists and workers of both religious and secular opposition parties, including former cricket hero Imran Khan’s, chanted slogans including “Go Musharraf, go!” “Our struggle will continue for the restoration of an independent judiciary and reinstatement of the judges,” read a large banner carried by the crowd as it came out of the High Court building and paraded on the main Mall Road.
Many carried portraits of deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who was sacked by Musharraf in November and remains under house arrest in Islamabad.
Lawyers across Pakistan have held protests every Thursday since Musharraf fired the Justice Chaudhry and more than 60 other judges after declaring a state of emergency on November 3.