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LUMS responds to 'unlawful' removal of CJ
LAHORE, March 13(Daily Times): The LUMS Law and Policy faculty is arranging a
university-wide teach-in, consisting of faculty and external experts giving
talks on constitutional history and judicial independence on March 14,
Wednesday. It will be open to students as well as other citizens. The teach-in
was announced in a statement released on Monday that expressed said faculty
condemnation of the removal of the chief justice of Pakistan.
They described the
government's action as "arbitrary", "coercive", "insulting" and "unlawful". The
statement bore names of the entire Law and Policy faculty. It said that the
unconstitutional act had "exposed the government's democratic pretensions" and
affirmed "the worst tradition of executive contempt for the apex court". It
observed that the removal brought the country into "disrepute in the eyes of its
citizens and the world".
The statement also condemned "in the strongest possible
terms the government's shameful brutality in attacking colleagues [of LUMS
faculty] in the legal profession for exercising their democratic and human right
to peacefully assemble in protest against this gross violation of judicial
independence and the rule of law".
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| Education News | | Updated: 25 May, 2012 |
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