S.M. Zafar, 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 human rights activist, noted lawyer (Senior Advocate Supreme Court), politician, and present Senator, PML-Q.

Career

Zafar began his career as a lawyer in the 1950s. He played an important role during the 1958 imposition of martial law in Pakistan and again in forcing amendments to Pakistan’s 1962 constitution, which at first did not have sufficient protections for basic human rights. After serving as a judge of the high court and as Pakistan’s minister for law and parliamentary affairs, Zafar retired from the government in 1968 and started his own law practice.

Official posts

Federal Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Government of Pakistan (1965–69),
President High Court Bar Association, Lahore (1975),
President Supreme Court Bar Association (1976),
Chairman Human Right Society of Pakistan.
Chairman Cultural Association of Pakistan.
Chancellor of Hamdard University

Hamdard University

Hamdard University is a private institution of higher education in Karachi and Islamabad, Pakistan. The university was founded in 1991 by Hakim Said of the Hamdard Foundation. Hamdard University has the largest campus of any private university in Pakistan, covering...

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External links

• August/September 1996, Page 78 Meet the Pakistanis S.M. Zafar—An Effective Legal Advocate for Human Rights by Richard H. Curtiss
• Senate of Pakistan