Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb (born 1970) is a Pakistani barrister and judge who is currently one of those serving as a justice before the

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. Miangul Hasan Aurangzeb is the son of

Miangul Aurangzeb Miangul Aurangzeb (Urdu/Pashto: میاں گل اورنگزیب‎ 28 May 1928 – 3 August 2014) was the last Wali Ahad (Crown Prince) of the former Swat State, the son of the last Wali of Swat, Miangul Jahan Zeb and the son -in-law of the ...

and his wife Nasim. Nasim was the daughter of Pakistani Field Marshall

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Aurangzeb is the paternal grandson of the former

Wāli of Swat The Wāli of Swat ( ur, ) was the official title of the leader (wāli) of the erstwhile princely state of Swat and also the nomenclature of the Miangul dynasty that ruled there from 1926 to 1969. History The earlier titles of the rulers of Sw ...

Miangul Jahan Zeb Miangul Jahan Zeb HPk, HQA, CIE ( ur, ) (5 June 1908 - 14 September 1987), also known as Miangul Abdul-Haq Jahan Zeb, was the Wāli of Swat from 1949 to 1969, a princely state that is now part of Pakistan. He succeeded his father, Wadud of S ...

, and the maternal grandson of Mohammad Ayub Khan, a former President of Pakistan. His father,

, was the

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Province. His primary school was the

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in his family's traditional residence Swat. He started attending

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in Abbottabad in 1980 a successor to Burn Hall College and School founded by British missionaries but acquired and converted to a military school in 1977. Aurangzeb obtained his Cambridge/O levels from Burn Hall in 1988. He moved to Islamabad for additional education at

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in Islamabad and completed A level. In 1991 he was awarded a scholarship from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and moved to Britain. Aurangzeb studied for his Baccalaureate at the

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in Cardiff, Wales. Subsequently, he moved to London where he studied corporate and commercial law at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies of the

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. On graduation in 1994 he was accepted into Lincoln's Inn one of the world's most prestigious professional bodies of judges and lawyers. He moved back to Pakistan in 1996 and became an Advocate at Swat District Court. As the ruler his grandfather Miangul Jehan Zeb who served as Wāli

Jahan Zeb of Swat Miangul Jahan Zeb HPk, HQA, CIE ( ur, ) (5 June 1908 - 14 September 1987), also known as Miangul Abdul-Haq Jahan Zeb, was the Wāli of Swat from 1949 to 1969, a princely state that is now part of Pakistan. He succeeded his father, Wadud of Sw ...

had operated a court which had full jurisdiction and authority. This was previous to incorporation of Swat into Pakistan under civil administration in 1969. After abdication Miangul Zehan Zeb and Miangul Aurangzeb continued acting as informal civil mediators. In 1997 Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb was admitted as a barrister before the

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and Islamabad High Court. He worked in the law firm of Hafeez Pirzada Law Associates founded by Abdul Hafeez Pirzada in which he was made a partner. In 2008 he was admitted to practice before the

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. He is a governor of the Overseas Pakistani Foundation and a member of the

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. Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb was made an Additional Judge of the Islamabad High Court in December 2015.Free Press Journal: October 2017 : Pakistan Foreign Minister's Plea Against Indictment Rejected
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Publications

Judgements

External links

Islamabad High Court: Honorable Mr. Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb

References

People from Swat District Swat royal family Living people Pakistani lawyers Pakistani judges 1970 births Judges of the Islamabad High Court Nawabs of Pakistan {{Pakistan-law-bio-stub