Our Movement and Struggle will continue: Aitzaz

The authorities in Pakistan have temporarily released a lawyer who is a leading opponent of the government.

Aitzaz Ahsan says he has been told his detention has been lifted for three days over the Muslim holiday of Eid. Mr Ahsan was arrested at the beginning of six weeks of emergency rule which ended at the weekend.

"We are ready to face batons, bullets and bombs," he told AFP by telephone from Lahore. "Our movement and struggle will continue and there will be no let up till the restoration of judges and the judiciary," he said.

Ahsan was crucial in the legal battle that got Chaudhry's suspension overturned. But after the state of emergency was imposed, Chaudhry was sacked and himself remains under house arrest.
Musharraf lifted the emergency last week but dozens of lawyers and judges are still in detention, and the president has vowed they will not be given back their jobs.

Ahsan said lawyers and judges across Pakistan were "determined and united and ready to make extreme sacrifices" in their fight. "The people of Pakistan are with us."

Source: AFP News