Ali Nawaz Chowhan

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Ali Nawaz Chowhan
Died3 September 2023
Occupation Pakistani judge

Justice Ali Nawaz Chowhan (died 3 September 2023) was a Pakistani judge. He started as a district judge in 1977 and was judge of the Lahore High Court from 1999 to 2005. [1] From 2006, he was a judge for the Yugoslavia tribunal for three years. He was a judge for UNESCO in 2010. [2] [3] He was the Chief Justice of Gambia from 6 March 2014 until 12 May 2015. [4] [5] [6] [3] [7] [8] He was appointed as first chairman of Pakistan's National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR) in 2015. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

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Education

Chowhan studied at the University of Punjab and obtained both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws there. He also obtained degrees in sharia law and law at three different universities: in Pakistan the International Islamic University in Islamabad and in Saudi Arabia the International Islamic University in Medina and the Umm al-Qura University in Mecca. He also followed several other in-depth studies in Pakistan and the United States, such as in the field of civil service law and the fight against drugs. [14] [15]

Death

Chowhan died from a cardiac arrest at Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad, on 3 September 2023. He was laid to rest in Rawalpindi on 4 September. [16]

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  2. ↑ "UNESCO Programs Pakistan National Commission for UNESCO". www.pncugovpk.com. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  3. 1 2 "Gambia's Chief Justice dismissed". thepoint.gm. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
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  6. ↑ Asemota, Sidiq (9 December 2014). "Gambian Judiciary Reforming to Tackle Bureaucratic Shackles - Chief Justice Chowhan Tells Colleagues in Algiers". The Daily Observer.
  7. ↑ Asad, Malik (2015-05-26). "Profile: From Pindi to Gambia and back". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  8. ↑ "Gambian president sacked Supreme Court judges". News24. 2015-06-29. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  9. ↑ "Pakistan: Commission probes allegations of police torture in Faisalabad | Asia Pacific Forum". www.asiapacificforum.net. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  10. ↑ "Chowhan urges stakeholders to support NCHR efforts". The Frontier Post. 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  11. ↑ "Annual Report" (PDF). National Commission for Human Rights, Pakistan. 2017.
  12. ↑ "National Commission for Human Rights nominates focal persons for collecting data and reporting crimes against journalists". unesco.org.pk. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  13. ↑ "Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan Appointed chairman of NCHR -". 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  14. ↑ "Ali Nawaz Khan". School of Law. 2017-09-06. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  15. ↑ "PRSP". www.prsp.org.pk. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
  16. ↑ "Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan is no more". 4 September 2023.
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