Pakistan, Sept. 6 -- Eight members of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) have rejected proposed amendments seeking to make the council's proceedings and deliberations confidential, saying the regulatory body of the legal fraternity should instead operate with transparency.

In a letter to the PBC secretary, the eight members - Abid Shahid Zuberi, Muhammad Maqsood Buttar, M Shafqat Mehmood-Chauhan, Munir Ahmed Kakar, Abdul Sattar Khan, Salman Akram Raja, Salahuddin Ahmed and Qazi Muhammad Arshad - said all proceedings of the council should be open, since it was an elected body representing the entire legal fraternity.

"We are not a private club or some secretive government ," the two-page letter said. A copy of the letter was also sent to Att...