LAHORE, June 8: Lawyers will start their long march from the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam in Karachi on Monday, according to president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Aitzaz Ahsan.

Announcing plans for the long march at a press conference here on Sunday, he said other convoys would also embark from various cities and towns in Sindh and Balochistan on the same day and reach Sukkur on Monday, and set out for Multan at 10am on June 10 where they would be received by the deposed chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

He said that the participants would leave Multan for Lahore at 9am on June 11. The deposed chief justice would address them when they arrive in Lahore and the march would leave for Islamabad at 9am on June 12.

Processions from various cities and towns would join the marchers along the route.

He said that convoys from Muzaffarabad, Abbotabad and Peshawer would leave for Islamabad on Thursday and they would be joined by processions from Lahore in Rawalpindi and they would jointly march on to the Parliament House in Islamabad via Murree Road and Aabpara.

He said that the march would be “completely peaceful”.

The protesters, he said, would carry banners and placards and raise slogans. “Anyone resorting to violence will be identified and asked to leave.”

He said that the march was being taken out to create public awareness about the need for reinstating “independent judges”.

“The lawyers will not be provoked and they will not storm any buildings or damage any property.”