PAKISTAN BAR COUNCIL
Dated: 05.07.2020
PRESS RELEASE
5TH JULY, 1977, THE BLACKEST DAY.
Mr. Abid Saqi, Vice Chairman, Pakistan Bar Council, has issued the following press statement:-
“The people of Pakistan in particular and the people of Democratic Republics throughout the Globe remember today, with utmost gloom and dismay, the fascist action of Dictator General Zia-ul-Haq, the worst ever military Ruler in Pakistan, who by abrogating the first ever consensus Constitution of 1973, ousted Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and toppled his democratically elected Govenment on 5th July, 1977, which in fact laid the foundation of introducing perpatual undemocratic & unconstitutional rule and system of Government in Pakistan under hegemony of the Establishment.
The 5th July, 1977, therefore, being most fatal blow on the real Democratic System of Government, will always be remembered as the “DARKEST DAY” in the history of Pakistan.
It is the matter of grave disappointment, specially for democratic forces in the country, that despite passing of more than 46 years of the said unfortunate incident, most of the time the country remained under the Rule of Martial Laws or if it were so called democratic Governments, they were under direct influence and dictates of the establishment which led our country, as proven, to anarchy, instability and economic disaster.
It is, therefore, dire need of the hour that all democratic forces, who really beleive in true democracy, constitutionalism and peoples well being, specially belonging to deprived segments of society, to forge unity among themselves and struggle for purification of all malaise from present rotten system of Government, to establish a real people’s democratic Pakistan.”
SECRETARY,
PAKISTAN BAR COUNCIL