The Supreme Court of Pakistan is the apex court in the judicial hierarchy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
The Lahore High Court is a provincial court house based in Lahore,Punjab,Pakistan. It was established as a high court on 21 March 1882. The Lahore High Court has jurisdiction over the province of Punjab. The High Court's principal seat is in Lahore,but there are benches in three other cities of the province:Rawalpindi,Multan and Bahawalpur.
Rana Bhagwandas was a Pakistani jurist who served as a senior judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (CJP). He enjoyed extremely high reputation as a judge. He remained the acting CJP during the 2007 judicial crisis in Pakistan,and also briefly became the acting Chief Justice of Pakistan when the incumbent Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry went on foreign tours in 2005 and 2006,and thus became the first Hindu and the second non-Muslim to serve as chief of the highest court in Pakistan. Rana Bhagwandas also worked as the Chairman of Federal Public Service Commission of Pakistan. He headed the interview panel for the selection of the federal civil servants in 2009.
The Honourable Justice (R) Nasir Aslam Zahid;Barrister-at-Law,is a Pakistani judge who served as the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court and then a judge of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan and Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Saeed Uz Zaman Siddiqui was a Pakistani jurist and legislator of great prominence who formerly served as the 15th Chief Justice of Pakistan and,prior to that,the 7th Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court. At the time of his death,he was serving as the 31st Governor of Sindh.
The High Court of Sindh is the highest judicial institution of the Pakistani province of Sindh. Established in 1906,the Court situated in the provincial capital at Karachi. Apart from being the highest Court of Appeal for Sindh in civil and criminal matters,the Court was the District Court and the Court of Session in Karachi.
The Peshawar High Court is the provincial and highest judicial institution of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. It is located in the provincial capital Peshawar. The Parliament passed a bill extending the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (SC) and the Peshawar High Court to Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA),one of a handful of reforms paving the way for a merger of the tribal areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Abdul Hameed Dogar is a Pakistani jurist who served as the former Justice of Sindh High Court,before being appointed Chief Justice of Pakistan by President Pervez Musharraf,after he dismissed the superior judiciary and declared emergency rule in 2007.
The Sindh Muslim Government Law College or S. M. Law College is one of the oldest law schools of Pakistan,situated in Karachi,Sindh. The college has produced numerous notables including Chief Justices of Pakistan,Chief Justices of Federal Shariat Court,Chief Ministers of Sindh,Federal Ministers,and many judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and Sindh High Court.
Justice Tufail Ali Abdul Rahman was born in Karachi,Sindh in 1921 and belonged to a highly respectable family that produced a lot of legal professionals,government officers and people actively involved in the education sector.
Jawwad S. Khawaja is a Pakistani jurist,and former professor of law at the Lahore University of Management Sciences,who served as the 23rd Chief Justice of Pakistan. He was nominated for the position by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 17 August 2015,and approved to take office by President Mamnoon Hussain on the same day.
Syed Shuja’at Ali Qadri was the first Grand Mufti of Pakistan,Judge of Federal Shariat Court,a member of the Pakistani Council of Islamic Ideology,and a scholar of Islamic Sciences and modern science. He was influenced by Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri.
Mir Hazar Khan Khoso was a Pakistani jurist who was the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from 25 March to 5 June 2013. Khoso was a judge who previously served as the chief justice of the Federal Shariat Court and served as the caretaker prime minister ahead of the general elections scheduled in May 2013.
Anwar Zaheer Jamali is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 24th Chief Justice of Pakistan. He remained in the Supreme Court from 3 August 2009 to 30 December 2016. He has also served as the Acting Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan,and Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court. In 1995,he was elected as Chairman Executive Committee (CEC) of the Sindh Bar Council and held this position till his elevation to the Bench. He was highly praised for being one of the few judges who refused to take fresh oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order No.1 of 2007. He took several suo motos as a Chief Justice,notably on several human rights cases.
Irfan Qadir is a Pakistani lawyer and jurist who served as the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior from September 2022 to August 2023. He also served as the 29th Attorney-General for Pakistan from April 2012 to June 2013,and was a Justice of the Lahore High Court in 2009.
The events listed below are both anticipated and scheduled for the year 2023 in Pakistan.
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