children: Sikandar, fiza, dilwar,

Hamid Khan (born 16 April 1945) is a Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i writer, Supreme Court

Supreme Court of Pakistan

The Supreme Court is the apex court in Pakistan's judicial hierarchy, the final arbiter of legal and constitutional disputes. The Supreme Court has a permanent seat in Islamabad. It has number of Branch Registries where cases are heard. It has a number of de jure powers which are outlined in the...

 lawyer, a former Chairman Executive & vice Chairman of Pakistan Bar Council

Pakistan Bar Council

Pakistan Bar Council was established by the Parliament in 1973 under the Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act. It is the highest elected body of lawyers. it has twenty members elected throughout the country representing each province. The Members of the Pakistan Bar Council are elected on the...

, former vice Chairman of Punjab Bar Council

Punjab Bar Council

The Punjab Bar Council is a supreme statutory & Deliberative assembly of lawyers in Punjab for safeguarding the rights, interests and privileges of practicing lawyers, regulating their conduct and helping in the administration of justice and it is also 1st biggest Bar Council of Pakistan...

 and former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan (2001–2003) and one of the founding partners of Cornelius, Lane and Mufti, a leading law firm in Pakistan. Like many leading Pakistanis, he is a Punjabized ethnic Pashtun (Pathan

Pathan

Pathan may refer to a member of the:*Pashtun people; an ethnic group native to Pakistan and Afghanistan*Pathans of Punjab*Pathans of Rajasthan*Pathans of Uttar Pradesh*Pathans of Bihar*Pathans of Gujarat*Rohilla...

) He wrote several books that are recommended reading for Pakistani students of law. Khan is also the senior Vice President of the Pakistani political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is "Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem".-Founding:...

. In earlier positions he served as the President of the Lahore High Court Bar Association

Lahore High Court Bar Association

Lahore High Court Bar Association is situated in Lahore.Lahore Bar as a collective group took birth somewhere before 1892-93 and its first President was elected in 1993. In 1910 the Executive Committee recommended that the Bar Association should be registered...

 (1992-93)

Khan was the lawyer of the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, when General Pervez Musharraf put forward a reference against the Chief Justice and Chaudhary decided to defend his case in the court. Hamid Khan contributed considerably to the Lawyers' Movement of Pakistan which led to the restoration of Chaudhry as Chief Justice of Pakistan.

Khan regularly lectures on various legal subjects at Punjab University, the Civil Services Academy, the National Institute of Public Administration and the Pakistan Administrative Staff College.

Hamid Khan is married to Gulnaz Khan and has three sons and one daughter. One of his sons, Sikandar, is also a lawyer. Hamid Khan has two granddaughters from his daughter. His daughter-in-law, Shirin Sadeghi, is an Al-Jazeera English contributor. She is married to his second son, Dilawar. He currently resides in Lahore, in the prestigious AFOS neighborhood within the city's Cantonment.

Khan serves as the vice-president for his fellow Pathan Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaaf (Justice Party) Party. He was once neighbors with Pakistani actress Maria Wasti

Maria Wasti

Maria Wasti is a Pakistani film and television actress. Most of her roles in television serials portray her as a Pakistani woman going through difficult times and have landed her great respect in the eyes of critics and fans alike....

's uncle, political activist Muhammad Khurram Wasti.And he is still working but he and his friend did get general pervez musharraf removed from the government.

Selected bibliography

• Constitutional and Political History of Pakistan (Hardcover - 31 Aug 2001)
• Islamic law of inheritance: A comparative study with emphasis on contemporary problems (Unknown Binding - 1980)
• Constitutional and Political History of Pakistan (Paperback - 21 April 2005)
• The last defender of constitutional reason? Pakistan’s embattled Supreme Court, in: Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York, 2011 (Rainer Grote / Tilmann Röder, eds.).

External links

• Hamid Khan Advocate's Profile and Photos, Movement for Rule of Law.