The University of the Punjab,also referred to as Punjab University,is a public,research,coeducational higher education institution located in Lahore,Pakistan. Punjab University is the oldest and largest public sector university in Pakistan.
Choudhary Aitzaz Ahsan is a Pakistani politician and lawyer. He served two times as the Leader of the House in the Senate of Pakistan from 1994 to 1997 and again from 2012 to 2015. He also served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. He was elected a member of the Senate of Pakistan from Punjab in 1994. His tenure ended in March 2018.
Wajihuddin Ahmed is a retired senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan,human rights activist,and former professor of law at the Sindh Muslim Law College.
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.
Shakargarh,is a tehsil located in Narowal District,Punjab,Pakistan. Shakargarh was the only tehsil of Gurdaspur district which was included in Pakistan at the time of the independence in 1947. The literacy rate of Shakargarh is more than 97.6%,the highest in Pakistan. Pakistan Standard Time is referenced from Shakargarh.
Muhammad Latif Khosa is a politician representing Pakistan People's Party who had been the Governor of Punjab from 2011 until 2013. He is a lawyer by profession,having been a senior advocate in the Supreme Court of Pakistan and is considered an authoritative legal and constitutional expert of the country. A former senator and a former Attorney General of Pakistan,Latif Khosa was appointed as the Governor of Punjab by the President of Pakistan after the murder of late-Governor Salman Taseer on 11 January 2011. He was appointed the attorney general on 19 August 2008. Khosa also remained Member Pakistan Bar Council for three terms 1990-2005 and served as Chairman of the Executive Committee (CEC) of Pakistan Bar Council. He co-authored an electoral fraud report with former prime minister Benazir Bhutto shortly before her assassination in December 2007. Khosa had been one of Bhutto's top aides.
Zaheer-ud-din Babar Awan,is a Pakistani politician,senior lawyer,author,analyst,columnist,and leftist writer who served as Adviser to Prime Minister for Parliamentary Affairs from April 2020 to 10 April 2022,and before that as the Federal Law Minister in the cabinet of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. He also served as a junior Pakistani Senator of Punjab Province from 2012 to 2017. Later he joined PTI to serve as Member Executive Council of PTI.
Iqbal Haider was a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the co-chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan ("HRCP"). He was also a Senator,Federal Minister for Law,Justice and Parliamentary Affairs from November 1993 to December 1994,Pakistan's first Federal Minister for Human Rights and Attorney General.
Raja Muhammad Zafar-ul-Haq,is a Pakistani politician and lawyer,who served as senator from the Punjab,being elected on 12 March 2009. He had been the leader of the opposition in Senate from 2018 to 2021. He is serving as the Chairman of the Pakistan Muslim League (N),a centre-right party,since 20 February 2000.
Khalid Ranjha is a Pakistani lawyer and a politician from Punjab,Pakistan. He also served as Federal Law Minister of Pakistan in 2002 and a member of the Senate of Pakistan. He remained Advocate General Punjab,Judge Lahore High Court and the President of Lahore High Court Bar Association,Lahore
Zafar Mehmood Mughal is a Pakistani Lawyer,He was elected as Chairman Executive of Punjab Bar Council for the year 2011-12. He has been Member Punjab Bar Council for the term 2010-14. both Zafar Mehmood Mughal and Muhammad Lehrasib Khan Gondal were elected unopposed as Punjab Bar Council’s chairman executive and vice chairman,respectively in 2011-12 Elections. He has set the record of being elected as member of Punjab bar council for the second time as in the history of Pakistan no one has ever won for the second time. After Chairman Executive,he was selected as Deputy Attorney General of Pakistan. Recently he also elected as the President of high court. Zafar Mehmood Mughal became the president of the Lahore High Court Bar Association,Rawalpindi bench. He secured 965 votes while Ghulam Mustafa Kandwal took 571,Sarkar Abbas 471 and Ghufran Khurshid Imtiazi sixteen votes.
Walid Iqbal is a Pakistani politician,lawyer,law professor serving as a member of Senate of Pakistan from Punjab,Pakistan and the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Human Rights.
Khalid Anwer is a Pakistani lawyer,jurist and constitutional expert who previously served as the federal Minister for Law,Justice and Human Rights following his appointment in 1997. He remained in office until the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état led by General Pervez Musharraf which toppled the ruling government of Nawaz Sharif. He is the son of Chaudhry Muhammad Ali,a freedom fighter and the fourth Prime Minister of Pakistan who was notable for having played a role in the formation of the first Constitution of Pakistan in 1956.
Malik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana was the 32nd Governor of Punjab,in office since 10 May 2015. He is affiliated with PML-N.
Zafarullah Khan is a Pakistani Politician,Barrister-at-Law and Writer/Author. He served as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Law/Federal Minister,Government of Pakistan (2016-2018);Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Human Rights,Minister of State,Government of Pakistan (2014–15);Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Economic Affairs/ Minister of State Government of Pakistan (2014–15);Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Cabinet Division/ Minister of State Government of Pakistan (2014–15);Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs/Minister of State Government of Pakistan (2014);Secretary,Law,Justice and Human Rights,Government of Pakistan. He Joined District Management Group of Civil Service of Pakistan (1987);served in the provinces of Punjab and Sindh in various Administrative,judicial and local Government positions from 1989 to 1995 and from 1998 to 2002.
Zafar Iqbal is an Urdu poet based in Okara,Punjab,Pakistan in Arain family.
Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed was a former justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and of Lahore High Court. He died on 11th October 2015.
Ahmad Awais is a senior Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan,who also served as Advocate General Punjab 2018–2019,in the PTI Government 2018,he remained the President of Lahore High Court Bar Association,Lahore 2004. He is senior member of PTI and brother in law of General Hamid Gul who remained Chief of ISI. In his election campaign when he was contesting Bar election of High Court Bar Association he claimed that he will conduct criminal trial,in the Bar,of the dictator General Pervez Musharraf. His sons and son in law,are also advocates and member of the Bar Association.
Akhtar Aly Kureshy 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,and Legal Advisor to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab.
Syed Ali Zafar is a Pakistani senator and barrister,who was born and grew up in Lahore. He was Federal caretaker Minister for Law and Justice of Pakistan in 2018 and President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan 2015–16. He remained President of the Pakistan chapter of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Law and a senior partner of Mandviwalla &Zafar,legal consultants. He is associated as vice-president of the Human Rights Society of Pakistan. He earned his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the London School of Economics in 1983,and Bar at Law from England and Wales in 1984. He is also a political analyst and regularly writes in The Express Tribune on various political,social and legal issues of Pakistan. He joined the present ruling party,Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI),in 2019.
