The long march will leave for Lahore from Rawalpindi on March 15 which is expected to reach Islamabad on March 16. The participants of long march will start staging sit-in on Constitution Avenue for indefinite period of time at noon.
Earlier, addressing the conference former President of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan said the peaceful long march would not let the national leadership down. He said Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto also promised to restore the deposed judges.
The lawyers want the reappointment of a former Supreme Court chief, the independent-minded Iftikhar Chaudhry, who former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf dismissed in 2007.
But top lawyer and protest organiser Aitzaz Ahsan, a prominent member of Zardari's party, said the president could end the protest, and pave the way for a flood of investment, by keeping his promises to reinstate Chaudhry.
"Iftikhar Chaudhry's reinstatement can open the flood gates to private investment," Ahsan told Reuters in an interview on Monday. "Private investment goes only to countries where the judiciary is independent."
I know the world is under a deep recession but as and when the wheels start turning, that's the only recipe we have for attracting investment in a country that is bedevilled with so many problems,"
The objective is not to oust the government or derail democracy, it is just to get our liberal, progressive, modernist judges back" Aithezaz Said.
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