(31 Jan 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of lawyers carrying banners and placards as rose petals rain down on them
2. Mid of lawyers marching in protest
3. UPSOUND (Urdu) lawyers chanting: "Go Musharraf Go"
4. Various of other anti-Musharraf protesters supporting the lawyers
5. Protesters burn effigy of President Musharraf
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mansuf Khan, senior lawyer:
"We are fighting for liberty, freedom and the independence of the judiciary and these are the slogans."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ayesha Malik, laywer:
"Our struggle is for the restoration of democracy and for the reinstatement of the judges. We want to bring our country back on the track and this struggle will continue until all the judges are reinstated, until the time the judiciary is restored."
8. Various of armed security forces watching the protest
9. Medium of protesters chanting
10. Protest banner reading (English) "Message from heaven. Rise my fellow lawyers and raise my nation to its true glory"
11. Soldier watching protest from a truck
STORYLINE
Pakistani lawyers continued street protests on Thursday calling for the restoration of democracy and the ouster of President Pervez Musharraf ahead of crucial parliamentary elections scheduled for 18 February.
Armed security officers stood by as hundreds of lawyers and their supporters marched through central Lahore chanting "Go, Musharraf, Go".
"Our struggle is for the restoration of democracy and for the reinstatement of the judges. We want to bring our country back on the track and this struggle will continue until all the judges are reinstated, until the time the judiciary is restored," said lawyer Ayesha Malik.
In November, Musharraf purged the Supreme Court - which was poised to block his recent re-election by a compliant parliament - and briefly suspended the constitution, setting back expectations of a restoration of democracy.
"We are fighting for liberty, freedom and the independence of the judiciary," said Mansuf Khan, a senior lawyer.
Protesters burned an effigy of President Musharraf.
The top court's chief justice remains under house arrest, along with other prominent judges and lawyers.

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