Justice Bashir Ahmed Ghulam Nabi Kazi better known as Justice B G N Kazi (1921–1986) was the younger son of

Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi MBE (b: 1884 Naushero Feroze, British India – 1955) was an educator in Sindh, which is one of the four provinces of what is now Pakistan. He rose to the position of first Director of Public Instruction, S ...

a veteran educationist of

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, and a renowned jurist of Pakistan.

Family

Justice Kazi's elder brother

A G N Kazi Aftab Ghulam Nabi Kazi ( ur, آفتاب غلام نبی قاضی; 6 November 1919 – 9 August 2016) , also known as AGN Kazi, was a Pakistani civil servant and a bureaucrat during the Cold War and during the post cold war. Kazi was born in Si ...

remained at the helm of economic ministries of the

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for several decades. He was a nephew of intellectual Allama I. I. Kazi and German writer

Elsa Kazi Elsa Kazi (1884–1967), commonly known as "Mother Elsa", particularly in the Sindh province of Pakistan was a German writer of one-act plays, short stories, novels and history, and a poet. She was a composer and a musician of considerable achiev ...

Career

Justice B G N Kazi entered the judicial service and after his initial posting as a civil judge, he was appointed Deputy Secretary and subsequently Solicitor in the Law department of the Government of

West Pakistan West Pakistan ( ur, , translit=Mag̱ẖribī Pākistān, ; bn, পশ্চিম পাকিস্তান, translit=Pôścim Pakistan) was one of the two Provincial exclaves created during the One Unit Scheme in 1955 in Pakistan. It was d ...

. In 1970 after the re-creation of

Sindh Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province ...

as a province, he was appointed as Secretary in the Law Department of the

Government of Sindh The Government of Sindh ( sd, حڪومت سنڌ) ( ur, ) is the provincial government of the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Its powers and structure are set out in the provisions of the 1973 Constitution, in which 30 Districts of 7 Divisions un ...

. Subsequently he worked as Registrar of the High Court of Sindh and District and Sessions Judge of Karachi. In 1978 he was appointed as a Member of the Federal Services Tribunal and subsequently as a Member of the Monopoly Control Authority,

. In 1980 he was elevated as a Judge of the High Court of Sindh. Justice B G N Kazi was well known for his impeccable integrity and knowledge of legal affairs. After retiring from the High Court of Sindh in 1983, he worked for two years on the bench of the

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Post-retirement activity

Justice Kazi retired from the

in 1985. Subsequently he was involved in social work and also monitored zakat disbursement in the

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Karachi.

Death

Justice B G N Kazi died in 1986 after a brief illness, and was survived by his widow Mehrunissa and three daughters Safia, Salma and Asma. His son Rafiq Ahmed Kazi, a distinguished professor of physics in the

University of Sindh The University of Sindh ( ur, ; sd, سنڌ يونيورسٽي; informally known as Sindh University) is a public research university in Pakistan located in the city of Jamshoro. It is one of the oldest universities in Pakistan and was certifi ...

had died earlier in 1981 due to renal failure. His two sisters Khaki and Ayesha were married to Mumtaz Kazi and

Ahmed Hussain A Kazi Ahmed Hussain A. Kazi Tamgha-e-Pakistan (Medal of Pakistan) Award (15 August 1920 – 7 January 2007) was a civil servant of Pakistan and senior advocate of the Pakistan Supreme Court, who shaped the internal revenue, economic and industrializ ...

, respectively who were both eminent civil servants of Pakistan. His grand children include Sabena, Jamshed, Maria, Nazar Muhammad, Iftikhar and Manzar.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kazi, Bashir Ghulam Nabi Sindhi people Pakistani judges Pakistani solicitors 1921 births 1986 deaths 20th-century Pakistani lawyers

Family

Career

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Death

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