KARACHI: Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly, Haleem Adil Sheikh, said Saturday that lawyers had an important role in Tehreek-e-Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was also a lawyer who created Pakistan, dictator General Musharraf of that time had pushed Pakistan into the war of America-Afghanistan and even lawyers got rid of him by struggle.

This he said while addressing senior lawyers at Malir Bar Association where a gathering of lawyers community was hosted in his honor by senior lawyer Rehman Dino Mahesar who recently joined PTI.

In the gathering, President Malir Bar Association Advocate Abdul Razzaq Solangi, president of ILF Sindh Advocate Riaz Affandi, Advocate Nasrullah Jalbani, Senior Advocate Naeem Qureshi, Advocate Mukhtiar Sial, Advocate Mah Jabeen, Advocate Sohail Awan, Advocate Jamil Chana and other senior lawyers were participated.

Mr Haleem said that today he had brought the case of Pakistan to the lawyers community here. “This war is not my war, and this war is now the war of stable Pakistan and war of real freedom of Pakistan,” he said.

He said now it was not a movement of PTI but it had become a peoples’ revolution and entire nation was demanding fresh, free and fair election as it was the only solution to the current situation, adding the alliance of 12 parties was afraid of elections because the case was now in the court of people who had to decide the fate of the country.

Haleem demanded a judicial commission headed by a judge of Supreme Court to probe into the letter-gate in presence of media while keeping its proceedings open. He said that during the Zardari and Nawaz era, more than 400 drone strikes were carried out in Pakistan and legs trembled on a phone call while a lawyer commenting on the manner in which Emil Kansi was extradited to the United States uttered insulting words for the entire Pakistani nation.

In past, offensive caricatures were issued worldwide but no one dared to speak on issues of Namoos-e-Risalat and Islam, Haleem recalled, adding that Chairman PTI Imran Khan was the first leader who effectively raised the issues at international level.

Haleem said that in the result of USA-Afghanistan war, our 0.8 million civilians and soldiers were martyrdom, there was a lack of faith in the rulers of that time who became enslaved of America even they did not know that 220 million Pakistanis were standing side by side with the Army.

He said if we had not joined the war of USA in Afghanistan, we would not have suffered so much. He said why did America run away from Afghanistan? They wanted massacre of Muslims, and Imran Khan was only one leader who protested against the drown attacks. In Tehreek-e-Pakistan, the people had already thrown out the whites. Today the real freedom movement is going on once again and we will get rid of the whites, he stated.

Haleem said that today, there was a debate whether it was a conspiracy or interference, adding that the nation would decide, it was a conspiracy or interference, as the whole nation has come out in favor of Imran Khan while National Security Committee had proven foreign intervention and the stance of PTI as factual.

He said the United States wanted to make a deal with Imran Khan but Imran Khan replied “Absolutely not” in question asking for Pakistan’s base. He said Imran Khan gave an independent foreign policy. He said the superpower is only Almighty Allah, and we did not afraid of any other power.

Haleem said that horse-trading took place inside Sindh House and there was protest at the gate outside Sindh House but notice was taken only on the issue of gate protest while no one took notice of horse-trading inside Sindh House in which the tax money of the people of Sindh was squandered.