Qazi Anwar or Qazi Muhammad Anwar ( ur, ) is a former

attorney general In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general or attorney-general (sometimes abbreviated AG or Atty.-Gen) is the main legal advisor to the government. The plural is attorneys general. In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have exec ...

, constitutional lawyer, president of the

Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan The Supreme Court Bar Association ( ur, )(SCBAP) is an association established in 1989 comprising the supreme court lawyers in Pakistan. The Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act 1973 provides for the forming, recognition and functioning of ...

(SCBAP) and former senator. A former activist in the

Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, , ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third largest party in the National Assembly and second largest in the Senate of Pakistan. The party was founded ...

, he joined the

Awami National Party The Awami National Party (ANP; ur, , ps, اولسي ملي ګوند; lit. ''People's National Party'') is a Pashtun nationalist, secular and leftist political party in Pakistan. The party was founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986 and its curr ...

(ANP) in 1994 in protest against the dismissal of the provincial government by the federal government. He also served as additional deputy secretary general of ANP. Qazi Anwar was active in opposing the suspension of Supreme Court Chief Justice

Iftikhar Chaudhry Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ( ur, ; born 12 December 1948) is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 20th Chief Justice of Pakistan over three non-consecutive terms from 29 June 2005 to 11 December 2013. Chaudhry began practice as an advocate of ...

. A Pashto &

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-speaker, he rejoined the

. He was elected as president of SCBAP in 2009, defeating Barrister Bacha with support from lawyers associated with the ANP and PPP. Qazi Anwar, after his election to the office as SCBAP president, took a hard line on the issue of the

independence of the judiciary Judicial independence is the concept that the judiciary should be independent from the other branches of government. That is, courts should not be subject to improper influence from the other branches of government or from private or partisan inter ...

from interference by the government. He took an equally hard line against government influence on the SCBA, returning a 1 million rupee cheque to then-law minister Babar Awan.

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Pakistan Bar Council
{{DEFAULTSORT:Anwar, Qazi Awami National Party politicians Pakistani lawyers Pakistani democracy activists Pakistani human rights activists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Presidents of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan