New Delhi: It was all in a day’s work. After a day of high drama in Pakistan, former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif – who touched base with the country after seven years in exile - was deported to Saudi Arabia. In Pakistan, the move led to protests with Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N, with other opposition parties and lawyers' bodies, calling for a nationwide strike on Tuesday to protest the deportation.
Those who have called for a stir include PML-N, Islamist alliance Muthahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), Tehrik-e-Insaaf (Social Justice Party) headed by cricketer- turned-politician Imran Khan, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and Pakistan Bar Council.
SCBA President Munir A Mallik was quoted as saying by the agencies that if Sharif has been arrested, then law demanded that he should be produced before a magistrate within 24 hours.
"This is a simple case of kidnapping," he said.
Malik said like March 9, when Chief Justice Iftikhar M Chaudhry was suspended, today too was a "black day for the country" as the Supreme Court judgement was "flouted".
Lawyers all over the country would boycott the courts, he said. However, the Pakistan People's Party headed by Benazir Bhutto has not joined the call.
(With PTI inputs from Islamabad)
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