ISLAMABAD, Jan 3: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) may work out a new strategy when it will meet here on Friday to continue its campaign for the restoration of pre-emergency judiciary, 1973 Constitution and the launch of ‘judicial bus’, a term used by its president Aitzaz Ahsan now under detention.

“The entire political scene in the country has changed with the tragic assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi and therefore there is a need to re-devise strategies to keep up the pressure in different manners to achieve the objectives,” SCBA Secretary Chaudhry Mohammad Amin Javed told reporters here on Thursday.

Arrangements for running the judicial bus, he said, had been finalised to launch movement for the restoration of deposed judges of the superior courts, who either had declined to take oath under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) on November 3, 2007 or were not offered by the government. The meeting will decide about the final date of running the judicial bus.

The term judicial bus was used by Aitzaz Ahsan in his letter to the lawyers community from his detention before deciding not to participate in the general elections.

Since Aitzaz Ahsan is still under detention, Chaudhry Javed said the judicial bus would be driven by him and resolved to continue driving it till the release of his president.

Among other things, one of the agenda items before the association is to review boycott of superior courts by the legal fraternity. The meeting would also formalise a strategy for the release of Mr Ahsan and other prominent lawyers like Ali Ahmad Kurd and Tariq Mahmood.

The meeting is likely to be attended by all members of the SCBA including its provincial vice-presidents.

He reiterated SCBA’s stand that the present caretaker setup was unconstitutional and therefore not competent to hold free, fair, transparent and peaceful elections.

He was of the view that the current circumstances warranted boycott of the coming general elections, adding that the reaction of the political parties to participate in the elections especially after the murder of Benazir Bhutto was disappointing.

In case the SCBA is not allowed to hold meeting inside the Supreme Court where its office is situated, he said, the venue could be changed.