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Muhammad Akram Sheikh ( ur, ) is a Pakistani attorney in the

Supreme Court of Pakistan The Supreme Court of Pakistan ( ur, ; ''Adālat-e-Uzma Pākistān'') is the apex court in the judicial hierarchy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Established in accordance to thePart VIIof the Constitution of Pakistan, it has ultimate a ...

. He remained member

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and President

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 ...

. His two son are Advocate and member of

Lahore High Court Bar Association The Lahore High Court Bar Association ( ur, ) is situated in Lahore. Lahore Bar (presently Lahore High Court Bar) as a collective group took birth somewhere before 1892-93 and its first President was elected in 1893. In 1910 the Executive C ...

. He also enjoyed the office of Ambassador -at-Large of

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dully appointed by

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Nawaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi: ; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime minister of Pak ...

. He was closely associated with Barrister Ijaz Husain Batalvi and his elder son Raheel Kamran Sheikh member

also joined Ijaz Husain Batalvi Chamber where

Akhtar Aly Kureshy Akhtar Aly Kureshy ( ur, ) (born 15 November 1963) is a Pakistani lawyer, advisor and senior advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan who served as Assistant Attorney-General for Pakistan. He remained Assistant Advocate General Punjab, an ...

Advocate was there to welcome him. He was appointed Public Prosecutor in General

Pervez Musharraf General Pervez Musharraf ( ur, , Parvez Muśharraf; born 11 August 1943) is a former Pakistani politician and four-star general of the Pakistan Army who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of t ...

High Treason case, a noval case in the history of

to uphold the supremacy of Constitution in which General

was sentenced to death, a new milestone.

Early life and career

Muhammad Akram Sheikh was born near

Burewala, Vehari District Burewala (Punjabi language, Punjabi and ur, ), is a city of Vehari District in Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab, Pakistan. The city of Burewala is the headquarters of Burewala Tehsil, an administrative subdivision of the district.

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. He received his education from

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, Lahore. Then he finished his postgraduate studies at the

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in 1972. *He started his career from the District Bar Association, Sahiwal in 1973. *He also became a lawyer of the

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. * He then served as

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Executive Committee (CEC) of

(1993-1994). *He also had served as President of

some years ago.

Major court cases

Akram Sheikh has contested many major court cases including: * In a much-publicized case in the recent past, Akram Sheikh represented a Pakistani-American

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who had alleged that the then Pakistani ambassador in the US

Hussain Haqqani Husain Haqqani (; born 1 July 1956, alternately spelled Hussain Haqqani) is a Pakistani journalist, academic, political activist, and former ambassador of Pakistan to Sri Lanka and the United States. Haqqani has written four books on Pakistan, ...

had written a memo to US authorities asking for American help against the intervention in politics by the Pakistani military. This memo had allegedly been written by Haqqani on the advice of then Pakistani President

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. *Akram Sheikh has represented

and his family in many criminal and constitutional cases against them since the early 1990s. * In 1988–89, Akram Sheikh successfully defended Punjab government's right to open up its own bank

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. At that time, there was a confrontation between

's Punjab government and the federal government of

Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto ( ur, بینظیر بُھٹو; sd, بينظير ڀُٽو; Urdu ; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 t ...

Notable news media appearances

* Akram Sheikh has been vocal on national and international forums for

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, independence of judiciary and

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. For example, he participated in the 'Lawyers March for Law in Pakistan' on 14 November 2007 (news coverage of this march by US TV channel C-Span Network is shown on their website).Akram Sheikh speaks at Lawyers March for Law in Pakistan
c-span.org website, Published 14 November 2007, Retrieved 29 September 2017

References

External links

* Pakistani lawyers Living people People from Burewala University of the Punjab alumni Forman Christian College alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Presidents of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan Chairmen of the Pakistan Bar Council People from Lahore {{Pakistan-law-bio-stub