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Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim

Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim, TI (Urdu: فخر الدين جى ابراهيم; born 12 February 1928) is a Pakistani retired judge and a legal expert. He was appointed as the 24th Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan on July 14, 2012 and served until he resigned on July 31, 2013 and oversaw the 2013 election.^[1]

 

Ebrahim had remained a popular choice for interim governments mainly because of his high social status, he served as the interim Law Minister from 18 July 1993 until 19 October 1993, and interim Justice Minister from 5 November 1996 until 17 February 1997. Ebrahim is a retired Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, and Senior Advocate Supreme Court and is known also as a peace activist. He was the Attorney General of Pakistan during the government of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and served as his close legal adviser throughout the 1970s. In 1988, he was also Governor of Sindh, appointed by the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto during her first term.^{[2][not in citation given]}

 

Born in 1928 in Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat, British India to a Gujarati family. In 1945, Ebrahim attended the Gujarat Vidyapith where he earned his LLB with distinctions in 1949. While there, Ebrahim studied courses on philosophy and also attended the lectures given by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, which played an important role in his advocacy for non-violence. In 1950, Ebrahim moved to Pakistan and attended the Sindh Muslim Law College, where he earned an LLM and was awarded an honorary Juris Doctor in 1960. In 1961, Ebrahim established his own firm while he continued to lecture at the Sindh Law College. In 1971, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto appointed him Attorney General of Pakistan.

 

In March 1981, serving as an ad hoc Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, he refused to take a fresh oath, under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) promulgated by General Zia-ul-Haq along with Justice Dorab Patel and Chief Justice Sheikh Anwarul Haq. The PCO not only negated the independence of the judiciary but also prolonged martial law by nullifying the effect of a judgement giving General Zia’s regime limited recognition. Ebrahim established the Citizen Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) in 1989. The CPLC works in Karachi and assists citizens in registering the First Information Report (FIR) if it is refused by police for some reason. Ebrahim heads the law firm of Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim & Company, a general legal practice originally established in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. The firm relocated to Karachi in 1951.

 

Ebrahim has had long-standing ties with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). In 1995, the PCB initiated an inquiry, under the chairmanship of Ebrahim, to look into allegations made by Australian players Shane Warne and Mark Waugh surrounding the First Test between Pakistan and Australia in Karachi in 1994 and the ODI in Rawalpindi. The Australian cricketers had accused Saleem Malik of offering them bribes which they rejected. The inquiry was frustrated as the Australian players did not travel to Pakistan to give evidence, and thus the Inquiry had to rely on their statements together with the cross examination of Saleem Malik. In October 1995, Ebrahim concluded the proceedings by saying “The allegations against Saleem Malik are not worthy of any credence and must be rejected as unfounded.” In December 2006, Ebrahim also served as the Chairman of the PCB’s Anti-doping Appeals Committee, which acquitted Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif. Ebrahim was in favour of the acquittal and said, “This appeal committee [therefore] holds that will not be deemed to have committed a doping offence … The ban and punishment imposed by the earlier tribunal is hereby set aside as being contrary to the provision of laws.

Syed Qaim Ali Shah

Syed Qaim Ali Shah (Urdu: سید قائم علی شاہ ‎) is the Chief Minister of Sindh, Sindh President of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and an elected Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) from PS-29 (Khairpur-1). Formerly, Shah has been Federal Minister for Industries and Kashmir Affairs, a senator and a two time Chief Minister of Sindh (17th & 26th).^[1]

For his role as a founding member of PPP and his political experience, Shah enjoys the reputation of a being a Pakistani political maestro of sorts.

Education

Syed Qaim Ali Shah was born to Syed Ramzan Ali Shah Jillani.^[2] Shah’s household was counted amongst Khayrpur state’s more influential and educated families. After completing his early education in Naz High School, Shah was married by his family to a relative before he proceeded to Karachi for higher education.

In Karachi, Shah enrolled at Karachi University and received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. Later, he read law at S. M. Law College and received an L.L.B degree. During the course of his studies at SM Law College, Shah benefited from the company and guidance of his then professor, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, building a bond that would last for the duration of his professor’s life.^[3]

Political career

Shah entered politics by getting elected the chairman of Khairpur’s district council under Field Marshal Ayub Khan’s system of Basic Democracy in the 1960s.^[1] After that, there was no turning back. His close association with Bhutto led to his joining Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s PPP shortly after PPP’s creation in 1967.

 

He contested general elections of 1970 with a PPP-ticket from Khairpur Mirs and defeated his opponents, Syed Mohammad Baqir Shah (provincial president of National Awami Party (Wali)) and Syed Ghous Ali Shah. Recognizing young Shah’s capabilities, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto appointed Qaim Ali Shah to his small cabinet by making Shah the Federal Minister for Industries and Kashmir Affairs.

After General Zia-ul-Haq’s coup d’état in July 1977, Shah was arrested along with Bhutto and other cabinet ministers. Unlike other PPP bigwigs such as Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Ghulam Mustafa Khar, Makhdoom Khaliq-uz-Zaman, Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, who either left the party or became inactive, Qaim Ali Shah remained loyal to the party.^[4] During the eleven years of Gen. Zia-ul-Haq’s rule, Shah, and members of his family suffered imprisonment, torture, virtual poverty (as accounts and lands were seized), and constant fear. Most notably, Shah’s politically active nephew, Syed Parvez Ali Shah Jillani attained ‘Prisoner Of Conscience’ status in Amnesty International’s 1985 report for enduring six years of torture in General Zia’s torture cells. Benazir Bhutto’s autobiography, Daughter of the East, records Parvez’s ordeal in greater detail.^[5]

 

With General Zia’s death and Benazir Bhutto’s return to the country, Shah was appointed the president of PPP-Sindh in recognition of his services to the Movement for Restoration of Democracy (MRD) and PPP. His landslide victory in the 1988 elections from his constituency, Khairpur Mirs, paved way for his appointment as the 17th Chief Minister of Sindh on December 2, 1988.

Subsequently, Shah was elected as a Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA), Sindh, in 1990, 1993, 2002 and 2008. He lost the only election of his career in 1997 when the PPP was nearly routed from parliament. Later, he made a bid for a senate seat, and won his first and only senate term in late 1997.

He won seven out of eight general elections he contested, becoming a MPA six times, and Member of National Assembly (MNA) and senator once, Shah completed his 2nd term as Chief Minister of Sindh on 21 March 2013.^[6]

Personal life

Shah’s first marriage was arranged by his family during his teenage years to a cousin. After Shah completed his education in Karachi, his family, in accordance with the customs of the day, arranged his second marriage to Husn Afroze Brohi, sister of A. K. Brohi. Neither of his wives outlived him. Husn Afroze suffered from breast cancer and died in the late 1970s and Shah’s first wife died from terminal illness a few years later. After several years as a widower, Shah contracted his marriage to his current wife according to the wishes of his family and friends.

Syed Qaim Ali Shah has four sons and eight daughters.^[4] The four children from his first marriage include Syed Muzaffar Ali Shah, Dr. Syed Liaquat Ali Shah, Shamshad Shah and Najma Shah. Syed Muzaffar Ali Shah is primarily an agriculturalist while Dr. Liaquat Ali Shah is an eye-specialist. Shamsad and Najma are housewives.

 

Syed Asad Ali Shah, Dr. Nusrat Shah, Naheed Shah Durrani, Nuzhat Shah, Dr. Nighat Shah, Dr. Nafisa Shah, and Syed Afzal Shah are his children from his marriage to Husn Afroze.

Syed Asad Ali Shah is the President of Institute of Charted Accountants Pakistan (ICAP), a board member of [http://www.ifac.org/About/ International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), a senior partner of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu‘s Pakistani firm, and Vice Chairman of Group of Experts on Accounting and Reporting, a forum of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.^[7]

Dr Nusrat Shah is a consultant gynaecologist and assistant professor at a public medical university. Dr. Nighat Shah is also a consultant gynaecologist, private practitioner, lecturer at Aga Khan University Hospital and current general secretary of Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Pakistan.^[8]

 

Naheed Shah Durrani is a civil servant. After scoring high marks on her CSS exam, she was selected based on her merit under General Zia-ul-Haq’s regime that was otherwise opposed to Naheed’s father.^[4] After 14 years of service in the foreign ministry, district management group, and finance ministry, Durrani has worked her way towards her current post as provincial secretary for education.^[9]

 

Dr. Nafisa Shah is a politician, journalist, anthropologist and painter. Dr. Nafisa Shah is a member of the National Assembly, Chairperson of National Commission for Human Development (NCHD), Member of Standing Committee on Economic Affairs, Finance and Minorities. She has the distinction of being counted among a few female politicians with over ten years of experience of field politics and an even smaller number of parliamentarians with the distinction of completing doctorate and postgraduate studies from the prestigious Oxford University.

Syed Afzal Shah Jilani is an actuarial scientist living and working in the US.

Nuzhat Shah is a child with special needs and Shah’s youngest daughter, Mona, is studying medicine in Pakistan.

 

Qaim Ali Shah’s 22 grandchildren also give him cause for pride, joy and comfort. Many of them are achieving distinctions in their careers and receiving honors at universities and schools in Pakistan and abroad.

Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid

The Honourable Justice (R) Nasir Aslam Zahid (Urdu: ناصر اسلم زاہد‎; born 3 February 1935, Barrister-at-Law, is one of the most respected names of Pakistani judiciary. Son of the first Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan Mr. Zahid Hussain, Nasir Aslam Zahid has remained the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court and then a judge of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan and Supreme Court of Pakistan. He gained more honour and respect when he resigned from the Supreme Court of Pakistan instead of taking oath of the office according to Gen. Pervez Musharraf‘s Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO).

Early life

Nasir Aslam Zahid was born in a small hilly town Mussoorie, near Delhi, British India. His father, Zahid Hussain was a finance officer, and also served chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, and later been Pakistani High Commissioner in India.

Education

Justice Nasir matriculated from Karachi‘s St Patrick’s High School, did his BA at Government College Lahore and went on to University of Cambridge (Fitzwilliam House) to study law and gain an Honours Degree. In 1956 he was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple.

Career

Barrister Zahid enrolled as an advocate of the Sindh High Court in 1957, and of the Supreme Court in 1962. He was elevated to the Bench of the SHC as an Additional Judge in 1980, and in 1983 was made a permanent judge. The second of the Pakistan Peoples Party government temporarily removed him from the Bench in 1988 to send him off on deputation as the federal law secretary, a post he held until June 1990 when he returned to the SHC. From January 1991 to the end of April of that year he moved to the Supreme Court as an ad hoc Judge. He had several spells acting as Chief Justice of Sindh, during the absence of the sitting Chief Justice, and in May 1992 took over as permanent Chief Justice. By 1994, Justice Zahid s independence could be tolerated no more by the harsh law enforcement agencies, backed by the executive. A relief-giving judge, he afforded no quarter to the agencies or the government prosecuting authorities. He was moved to the Federal Shariat Court on April 16 of that year, without his consent, for a period of two years. A tribute to the man. By right and according to the Supreme Court judgement of March 20, in April of this year he should have returned to the SHC to resume the chief justiceship. But, he was instead elevated as a permanent judge of the Supreme Court. However, he continued his contribution towards the dispensing of justice to the people of Pakistan up to the year 2000, and resigned from the Supreme Court of Pakistan instead of taking oath of the office according to Gen. Pervez Musharraf‘s Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO), which would have required the judges never to find illegality in the new government, no matter its actions.^[1]

Contribution and activities

He is deeply involved in human rights issues and judicial education, and has spent much of his private time since retirement on dealing with women’s legal concerns. He serves as Dean, Faculty of Legal Studies and Head of Hamdard School of Law at the Hamdard University, Karachi since October 2000.

Justice Zahid had a collaboration with the Government of Sindh, Pakistan for the establishment of a Committee for the Welfare of Women Prisoner of Special Prison for Women at Karachi. However, in the year 2009 the work was expended to included Juveniles and Male Prisoners of all 22 prisons of Sindh.

Quraish Pur

Quraish Pur (Zulqarnain Qureshi ^[1])(1932 – 5 August 2013) was a scholar, Urdu writer/novelist, columnist and media expert from Pakistan. He hosted the TV program Kasuti (PTV) in the 1970s with Obaidullah Baig. Famous for his knowledge and wisdom,^[1] he was one of the best known people in Pakistan.^[2][3]

Death

He passed away on 5 August 2013 in Karachi^[4] after a protracted illness.^[1] His burial took place at the Paposh Nagar Graveyard in Karachi.