Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada (b. 12 June 1923), Bar-at-Law (Lincoln's Inn) and a graduate in Law from Bombay University (India) in 1945, Senior Advocate to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, is widely regarded as Pakistan's leading jurist and constitutional expert. He has served a variety of senior government posts in his long and distinguished career. Presently serving (since 2002) as Honorary Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, Law, Justice and Human Rights with the status of Senior Federal Minister. He has been notorious for his association with every single military dictator of Pakistan, be it Ayub Khan or Yahya Khan, the islamist Zia-ul-Haq or the anti-islamist Pervez Musharraf. He has always found them ways and means by which they could prolong their tenures and give it a 'constitutional' and legal turn. June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... The University of Mumbai is one of the outstanding universities of India. ... The Supreme Court (Urdu: عدالت اعظمیٰ ) is the apex court in Pakistans judicial hierarchy, the final arbiter of legal and constitutional disputes. ...

Early Career

• Honorary Secretary to Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, 1941-1944.
• Secretary Bombay City Muslim league, 1945-1947.
• In charge of the publicity campaign of the Bombay Muslim League during the general elections of 1946.
• Managing Editor of The Morning Herald (an English-language daily newspaper in Bombay) in 1947.
• Participated in the Pakistan Movement in various capacities.
• Advisor to the Constitution Commission of Pakistan 1961.
• Member of International Rivers Committee of the International law Association 1961-1968.
• Chairman, Company Law Commission 1962.
• President Karachi High Court bar Association 1964.
• President International Law Association, Pakistan branch 1964-1967.

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Senior Posts with the Government of Pakistan

• Attorney General of Pakistan from 1965-1966.
• Foreign Minister of Pakistan from 1966-1968.
• Represented Pakistan in the Commonwealth Head of Government Conference in 1966.
• Moved Resolution 2253 of the United Nations General Assembly on the “status of Jerusalem” in 1967.
• Attorney General of Pakistan from 1968-1971.
• Represented Pakistan in the Commonwealth Law Ministers and Attorney Generals Conference 1971.
• President Afro-Asian Legal Consultative Committee, 1969.
• Attorney general for Pakistan from 1977-1985.
• Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs from 1979-1985.
• Caretaker Foreign Minister of Pakistan 1993.
• Appointed Honorary Roving Ambassador (with the status of Federal Minister) from 1995 –Current.
• Honorary Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive (CE) and Member (ex-officio) of the National Security Council (NSC) from 1999-200?.
• Honorary Senior Adviser to the Chief Executive (CE) on Foreign Affairs, Law, Justice and Human Rights (with the status of Senior Federal Minister) from 200?-2002.

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Association with the Organization of Islamic Conference

• Chairman of the Experts' Group for drafting the statue of the Islamic International Court of Justice.

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• Member of Committee of Eminent Jurists to review the OIC Charter 2007.

Represented Pakistan before various International Forums and Tribunals including

• Runn of Kutch Case 1965.
• Counsel in the reference regarding Namibia (before the International Court of Justice) 1970.
• Pakistan’s complaint against India in the matter of overflights at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) 1971.
• Appointed Judge (ad hoc) International Court of Justice 2000.

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Association with the U.N. (United Nations)

• Member United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 1972-1979 (Served as Chairman from 1977-1978).
• Chairman, Investigation and Working Group of Complaints of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 1978-1979.
• Leader of the Pakistani delegation to the Law of Sea Conference 1978-1980.
• Elected (by the UN General Assembly) to the International Law Commission, 1981-1986.
• Leader of Pakistani Delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission, 1995.

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Awards

• Awarded Nishan-i-Imtiaz in 1998)==

Nishan-i-Imtiaz (Urdu: نشان امتیاز) is the highest honor given to a civillian in Pakistan. ...

Publications

• Pakistan at a Glance, Bombay 1941.
• Jinnah on Pakistan, Bombay 1943.
• Leaders Correspondence with Jinnah.
• Evolution of Pakistan, Karachi 1962 (also published in Urdu and Arabic).
• Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Remedies in Pakistan, Lahore 1966.
• The Pakistan Resolution and the historic Lahore Session. Islamabad 1970.
• Foundation of Pakistan (3 Volumes), 1971.
• Some Aspects of Quaid-i-Azam’s Life 1978.
• Collected Works of Quaid-i-Azam Jinnah (3 Volumes).
• Dissolution of Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, Karachi 1985.

External links

• http://www.pirzada.com
• Profile of Pirzada