PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court Bar Association (PHCBA) passed a unanimous resolution on Wednesday rejecting the banned TNSM chief Sufi Mohammad’s version of Islam and terming it un-Islamic.
The PHCBA secretary general, Mohammad Essa Khan, held an emergency meeting here after Taliban’s threat to Shangla lawyers that they would be liable to be killed if they appear in regular courts.
The association also demanded that the provincial and federal governments provide full protection to the lawyers of Malakand Division, as they could not perform their duties in the presence of Taliban in the region.
“The government should call a national conference of all political parties, especially of religious parties, and explain its policy on Taliban Fatwas branding lawyers profession, democratic system and apex courts un-Islamic,” the PHCBA demanded through the resolution.
In his address to the meeting, Essa Khan condemned Taliban’s ban on lawyers attending of regular courts saying that there was no ban on lawyers’ profession in Islam rather it allowed the Muslims to have lawyers help in several matters of life.
He also urged the bar associations across the province to hold one-hour protest meetings in the barrooms daily to condemn the Taliban’s ban and threats to the lawyers. The PHCBA president, S M Attique Shah, said that today the Taliban were branding lawyers practice in Swat and Shangla districts un-Islamic and tomorrow they will ban lawyers practice in Buner and Dir districts and finally they will threaten the PHC lawyers not to appear in the regular courts. Shah said that to cope with the Taliban ban on lawyers and life threats to the Malakand agency lawyers, he would soon call a lawyers convention on the issue to press the government for safeguarding the lawyers’ profession and their lives.
Abdul Lateef Afridi, former president of PHCBA, said that after the enforcement of Nizam-e-Adl Regulation in Malakand Division the Taliban had to disarm and remain peaceful but they occupied 75 percent part of Buner district. “If the lawyers could run a successful movement for restoration of the deposed judges then they must also run a movement against the Taliban to safeguard the life of Malakand colleagues and their jobs,” Afridi said.
Afridi, who is also ANP leader, said that the ANP-led provincial government seemed helpless to counter the Taliban, as there were only 1600 policemen in the whole Malakand division out of which 131 had been killed, 800 left their duties and only less than 700 were in the field.
Barrister Bacha, woman lawyer Tehmina Kakakhel and Seth Tahir also criticized Sufi for terming regular courts un-Islamic. He said after enforcement of Nizam-e-Adl regulation, the Taliban were not interested in Sharia and wanted a parallel system in Malakand Division.
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