Haleem urges lawyers to come forward for supremacy of Constitution.

HYDERABAD -- Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Shaikh has said that the very existence of the state has been jeopardised in the wake of blatant violation of Constitution while all essential commodities have gone beyond the reach of common man and the poor have been deprived of even two square meals a day.

He told journalists after congratulating newly-elected office bearers of Hyderabad District Bar Association (HDBA) on Saturday that it was high time legal fraternity came forward for the supremacy of law.

He called for prosecuting the members of Election Commission of Pakistan under Article 6 for violating Supreme Court's decision on holding polls in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. After an assembly had been dissolved elections had to be held within 90 days as per Constitution, he said.

He said that ECP had turned Pakistan into a banana republic. Those who were supposed to save the state were watching silently as unconcerned spectators. Now, lawyers would have to rise to the occasion not for Imran Khan but for Pakistan, he said.

He said that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf had...