HYDERABAD, March 11 A group of lawyers has termed the lawyers' long march as the Pakistan Muslim League-N's long march and urged the government to reopen the case of attack on the Supreme Court by PML-N activists and initiate treason proceedings against party chief Mohammad Nawaz Sharif.

Speaking at a news conference here on Wednesday, Sindh Bar Council member Fazal Qadir Memon -- accompanied by Tanveer Ahmed, Haji Abdul Karim, Basharat Ali and some other members of the Sindh High Court Bar Association, Hyderabad chapter, and Hyderabad District Bar Association -- condemned a meeting of Ali Ahmed Kurd and Aitzaz Hassan with Mr Sharif in Raiwind.

Mr Memon said that it was Mr Sharif who had masterminded the attack on the Supreme Court during which judges of the apex court were held hostage. Mr Sharif was now using lawyers to topple the democratic government which could not be allowed, he said.

He said that initially, they had supported the struggle for reinstatement of deposed chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry but now the movement had been hijacked by political parties and Justice Chaudhry has become a politician.

He said that the movement was not for reinstatement of Iftikhar Chaudhry but against the democratic government which had come into power after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

He said Iftikhar Chaudhry should join a political party if he was interested in politics. He said they held Iftikhar Chaudhry in high esteem but now he was not a judge but a political leader.

He said that the language being used by Mr Sharif against the superior judiciary was tantamount to sedition.

He demanded action against those lawyers who were using force to close courts and said that the lawyers were playing a double game and they were not sincere with anyone.