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Sindh Muslim Law College
The Sindh Muslim Government Law College (Urdu: سنده مسلم گورنمنٹس لا کالج) or S. M. Law College (Urdu: ایس ایم لاء کالج) is one of the oldest law schools of Pakistan, situated in Karachi, Sindh. The college has produced numerous notables including Chief Justices of Pakistan, Chief Justices of Federal Shariat Court, Chief Ministers of Sindh, Federal Ministers, and many judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and Sindh High Court. The college was established by its first Principal Hassanally A. Rahman, a leading Advocate of Sindh on the June 28, 1947 and was affiliated to the University of Sindh. It started functioning at Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam. After the closure of Shahani Law College, the college shifted to its present building in 1948 and is affiliated with the University of Karachi. Library The college has one of the oldest law library in Pakistan. The library is an important resource centre, primarily intended to provide undergraduate a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public College
A public university or public college is a university or college that is in owned by the state or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country (or region) to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape. Africa Egypt In Egypt, Al-Azhar University was founded in 970 AD as a madrasa; it formally became a public university in 1961 and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the world. In the 20th century, Egypt opened many other public universities with government-subsidized tuition fees, including Cairo University in 1908, Alexandria University in 1912, Assiut University in 1928, Ain Shams University in 1957, Helwan University in 1959, Beni-Suef University in 1963, Zagazig University in 1974, Benha University in 1976, and Suez Canal University in 1989. Kenya In Kenya, the Ministry of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Ali Aslam Jafri
Syed Ali Aslam Jafri (13 October 1943 – 29 September 2021) was a Pakistani jurist, professor of law, social worker, Justice of the Sindh High Court, Federal Ombudsman for Insurance, Director General of Sindh Judicial academy and principal of Sindh Muslim Law College. Early life Syed Ali Aslam Jafri was born on 13 October 1943, in Agra, India, the son of Syed Ali Mutahir Jafri and Mutahira Khatoon. In September 1947, when he was less than 4 years old, he and his family migrated to Pakistan, staying in Haripur, Hazara for less than a year, after which, they moved to Khairpur. Education Jafri completed his early education at the Sultan-ul-Madaris school, Khairpur, and then his secondary education at Naz High School, Khairpur. He went on to study at Mumtaz College, Khairpur, where he was elected the General Secretary of the Students Union. He led and won many nationwide debating competitions in English, Urdu, and Sindhi.r He graduated from the University of Sindh in 1962, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wajihuddin Ahmed
Wajihuddin Ahmed ( ur, ; born 1 December 1938) is a retired senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, human rights activist, and former professor of law at the Sindh Muslim Law College. Prior to be elevated as Senior Justice of the Supreme Court, he briefly tenured as the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court from 1998 until refusing to take oath in opposition to martial law in 1999. He remained a strong critic of President Pervez Musharraf, eventually taking up a leading role in Lawyer's movement in 2007 to oppose President Musharraf. Ultimately, he unsuccessfully ran for the presidential elections held in 2007. Since 2011, he was active in national politics through Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), being the party's candidate for the presidential election 2013. He lost the election on 30 July 2013 to Mamnoon Hussain of Pakistan Muslim League (N). In 2016, he left Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Biography Education and lectureship Wajihuddin Ahmed was born into an Urdu- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tufail Ali Abdul Rehman
Justice Tufail Ali Abdul Rahman was born in Karachi, Sindh in 1921 and belonged to a highly respectable family that produced a lot of legal professionals, government officers and people actively involved in the education sector. Family background and education Tufail Ali Abdul Rahman's father Barrister Abdul Rahman? was a prominent member of the legal fraternity of South Asia, affiliated with the prestigious Queens Council. Tufail Rehman was married to his cousin Dr. Sarah Afroze Zubedi who after graduating in medicine acquired four post-graduate degrees in various languages and was actively involved in social work. He studied law at the Aligarh University, and he along with his elder brother Barrister Hassanally A. Rahman were the founding architects of the Sindh Muslim Law College, Karachi. His elder brother was also Vice Chancellor of the University of Sindh on two occasions. Subsequently Tufail Rahman Zubedi joined the faculty of the law college he founded in the University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan
Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan (born 23 August 1949) a Pakistani jurist belongs to Garhi Yasin in Shikarpur District of Sindh, Pakistan. He is the son-in-law of Justice Mushtak Ali Kazi, who was a Judge of High Court of Sindh and Balochistan. Justice Agha is a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He served as the 12th Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan from 2009-2014. Early life and family Justice Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan was born on in Shikarpur, Sindh Province, Pakistan. He belongs to the Royal Pathan Barakzai Family, from Afghanistan and is also related to Ahmad Shah Durrani of Persia. He is the son of Agha Mohammad Anwer Khan, an agriculturist and was educated at D.C. High School in Garhi Yasin. Subsequently, he graduated from the C&S Government College, Shikarpur and also graduated in Law from the University of Sindh in 1971. He is married to Mrs Farzeen Agha, and has four children namely, Agha Haris and Agha Fahad, Hira Agha Shah and Sanaah Agha S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mir Hazar Khan Khoso
Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (, ) (30 September 1929 – 26 June 2021) was a Pakistani jurist who was the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from 25 March to 5 June 2013. Khoso was a judge who previously served as the Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court, chief justice of the Federal Shariat Court and served as the interim prime minister ahead of the 2013 Pakistani general election, general elections scheduled in May 2013. Personal life Khoso was born in Goth Azam Khan village in the Jaffarabad District of the South-East Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan Province of Pakistan, on 30 September 1929. During his youth, Khoso participated actively in the Pakistan Movement and noted Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Jinnah as his inspiration. Khoso attended the University of Sindh, Sindh University in 1950 and graduated with BA degree in 1954. After two years, Khoso secured a bachelor's degree in LLB, law from Karachi University. He was public prosecutor at Jacobabad, Sindh from 1966 to 1976. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haziq-ul-Khairi
Haziqul Khairi ( ur, حازق الخيری ; born November 5, 1931) is a Pakistani jurist and author who served as Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan, Judge of the Sindh High Court, Ombudsman of Sindh and Principal of Sindh Muslim Law College. He is the grandson of eminent British India social reformer, Allama Rashid ul Khairi. Khairi also served as Member of the Council of Islamic Ideology where as Chairman Legal Committee he drafted the Women's Protection Bill. Founder of the private law firm ''H. Khairi Law Associates'', Khairi before his appointment as a Judge of the Sindh High Court was practising as Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Personal life and education Khairi was born in Delhi on November 5, 1931, into a literary family to Raziq-ul-Khairi and Begum Amina Nazli. Khairi's grandfather was Allama Rashid-ul-Khairi, a social reformer of British India and a reputed writer of Urdu Language. Khairi is the father-in-law of senior civ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulzar Ahmed
Gulzar Ahmed ( ur, ; born 2 February 1957) is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 27th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 21 December 2019 to 1 February 2022. Early life and education Ahmed's father, Noor Muhammad, was a lawyer in Karachi. Ahmed completed his elementary education from Gulistan School located in Karachi. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Government National College, Karachi. He went on to obtain the law degree from Sindh Muslim Law College. Judicial career Ahmed started his legal career as an advocate on 18 January 1986 and joined Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) on 4 April 1988. He joined Supreme Court Bar Association on 15 September 2001. He was elected honorary secretary of SHCBA from 1999-2000. From there on, he became a justice of Sindh High Court and then was appointed as a justice in the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 16 November 2011. Ahmed was part of the five-judge bench which disqualified the-then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the Panam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui
Saeed Uz Zaman Siddiqui (Urdu: ; 1 December 1939 – 11 January 2017) (pronunciation 'sa'eed -uz- zam'an'; alternatively Saiduzzaman Siddiqui) was a Pakistani jurist and legislator of great prominence who formerly served as the 15th Chief Justice of Pakistan and, prior to that, the 7th Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court. At the time of his death, he was serving as the 28th Governor of Sindh. Education Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui was born in a middle-class, educated Urdu-speaking family and received his school education at Lucknow (in modern Uttar Pradesh) and also was educated at Calcutta. Justice Siddiqui passed Matriculation from the Board of Secondary Education from Dhaka, East Pakistan in 1952. In 1954, Justice Siddiqui obtained intermediate in Engineering sciences from the University of Dacca. Siddiqui worked at the Physics Department, and taught undergraduate physics laboratory courses. Thereafter, Siddiqui moved to Karachi, West-Pakistan and attended Karachi University i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Sajjad Ali Shah
Syed Sajjad Ali Shah ( ur, سید سجاد علی شاہ; 17 February 1933 – 7 March 2017) was a Pakistani judge who served as the 13th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 4 June 1994 to 2 December 1997. He had been appointed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Benazir Bhutto. Prior to that, he served as the 6th Chief Justice of Sindh High Court from 13 December 1989 to 4 November 1990. Early life and career Shah was born on 17 February 1933 in Karachi. He enrolled as an advocate in 1959, and eventually became a district public prosecutor, an additional district and sessions judge, and, later, a district and sessions judge. He was appointed as joint secretary in the federal Ministry of Law and Parliamentary Affairs and, in 1977, was posted as the Registrar of the Supreme Court. In 1987, he was made a judge of the Sindh High Court 1987. Shah served as the Chief Justice of Sindh High Court from 13 December 1989 to 4 November 1990. Chief Justice of Pakistan When Dr. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Jethmalani
Ram Boolchand Jethmalani (14 September 1923 – 8 September 2019) was an Indian lawyer and politician. He served as India's Union minister of law and justice, as chairman of the Indian Bar Council, and as the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association. He was noted in the Indian legal fraternity for his forte in criminal law and high-profile civil cases. Jethmalani obtained his LL.B. degree at the age of 17 and started practising law in his hometown, Shikarpur, until the partition of India. The partition led him to move to Mumbai as a refugee where he began his life and career afresh. He announced his retirement from judicial profession in 2017. Throughout his political career, Jethmalani worked for improving the relations between India and Pakistan, owing to his experiences as a refugee post-partition. He was elected as member of the Lok Sabha twice, on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tickets, from the Mumbai North West constituency. He also served as the union minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of Pakistan
The prime minister of Pakistan ( ur, , romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam , ) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and his chosen cabinet, despite the president of Pakistan serving as the nominal head of executive. The prime minister is often the leader of the party or the coalition with a majority in the lower house of the Parliament of Pakistan, the National Assembly where he serves as '' Leader of the House''. Prime minister holds office by virtue of their ability to command the confidence of the National Assembly. The prime minister is designated as the "Chief Executive of the Islamic Republic". Pakistan's prime minister leads the executive branch of the federal government, oversees the state economy, leads the National Assembly, heads the Council of Common Interests as well as the Cabinet, and is charged with leading the National Command Authority over Pakistan's nuclear weapons arsenal. This p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
