page_title: Lawyers' Movement
section_title: Pro-government camp
hierarchical_section_title: Lawyers' Movement / Prominent leaders of the movement / Pro-government camp
caption_attribution_description: English: Asma Jahangir, shortly after being awarded the Freedom of Worship Award in Middelburg, the Netherlands, on the 29th of May in 2010.
context_page_description: The Lawyers' Movement, also known as the Movement for the Restoration of Judiciary or the Black Coat Protests, was the popular mass protest movement initiated by the lawyers of Pakistan in response to the former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf's actions of 9 March 2007 when he unconstitutionally suspended Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as the chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court. Following the suspension of the chief justice, the Supreme Court Bar Association declared the judge's removal as an "assault on the independence of judiciary" and were backed by several political parties.
context_section_description: These group of Lawyers' Movement activists sided with the PPP government after Zardari didn't reinstate the judges after he was sworn as the president of Pakistan.
  Latif Khosa was instrumental in the Lawyers’ Movement and voiced his appeal to restore dozens of senior judges sacked by Musharraf in 2007. He later distanced himself from the movement when the PML-N joined the movement against PPP, the political party that Khosa was affiliated with. He later organised a pro-government camp within the Lawyers' Movement.
  Latif Afridi was the general secretary of the Awami National Party (ANP) and later its breakaway faction National Awami Party of Pakistan (NAPP). He garnered support from both ANP and NAPP in backing the Lawyers' Movement.
  Asma Jahangir
  Qazi Anwar
  Muhammad Yasin Azad
caption: The UN special rapporteur Asma Jahangir served a pivotal role in the Lawyers' Movement and was put under house arrest on 5 November 2007.
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