Punjab Bar Council Election of 22nd November 2014-No Body Is Above Of Law . Article by ... Mian Ashraf Asmi Advocate High Court

Punjab Bar Council Election of  22^nd November            2014-No Body Is Above Of Law

Mian Ashraf Asmi Advocate High Court

As a member of legal fraternity, no doubt lawyers always did their active role in the every movement. The lawyers always spent their energies for the rule of law. When we talk about the rule of law it does not men that law should be impose on others, law is law and it should be for every one, without discrimination of cast, creed, religion and class. Lawyers always play their role for the fair play of the justice. When look back on  our history, lawyers played their role for the prosperity of the country. In every political movement, lawyer’s role is vital, in resent past when the General Mushraf bulldoze the judiciary, then lawyers started great struggle for the restoration of the judges and rule of law. The object of the lawyers was so sacred, the civil society and political parties also became the voice of the truth .The lawyers movement played such role that can not be compared with any other movement. In the era of General Auyb Khan, Genral Yahya Khan, General Zia UL Haq lawyer’s contribution for the restoration of the democracy can be written with golden words. In the Musharaf era, the lawyers were live burnt in Karachi and Okara.The history also witnessed that in the Keyani Hall of the Lahore High Court Bar, the lawyers were beaten by the police. The Lawyers were severely beaten even in their chambers also. The role of Great leaders of lawyer’s fraternity is great in every segment of the society. Lawyers are the real social workers, they even work in the worst conditions, it is the reason that lawyers are killed in the way of justice even more than Journalists in every year in Pakistan. The lawyer’s leaders only work for the lawyers even the rift among them because of their affiliation with political parties could not disintegrate  the lawyers ever, so the beauty of unity of the lawyer’s fraternity is its unity. Now the lawyers are electing their representative for Punjab Bar Council. Punjab Bar Council is the body which works to regularize the matters regarding the lawyers of the province of Punjab. The election of Punjab Bar Council is being held on 22^nd November 2014 in the 34 Districts and 7 Divisions of the Punjab. The total voters, those will cast their votes are 81783.There are 49778 are the  voters which are under the High Courts and 30195 voters are relating to the lower courts. The bifurcation about the votes of high courts and lower courts has no difference. There are 69 candidates are contesting form the Lahore for 16 seats. The total seats for members of Punjab Bar Councils are 75 and for these seats, 75 candidates are in the election. According to the Legal Practiceners and Bar Council rules, there is ban on the lunch, dinners on large scales, also there is prohibition of using posters, stickers, Banners, Play cards etc, According to their rules of Pakistan Bar Council, the candidate only contact to the voters personally or by Post cards, letters etc. Unfortunately, there is no respect by the lawyers for these rules. This thing involving such people in the election, those are not practicing lawyers and they have just enrolment of the bar councils as a lawyer. The use of money has closed the doors of election for the common lawyers, having not huge money for this. Legal fraternity look into the matter as rule of law is rule of law and no body is above of law.

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Writer of the Article is Practicing Lawyer.