S.M. Zafar

S.M. Zafar
Pakistan Senator to the Senate of Pakistan
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 March 2009
President Asif Ali Zardari
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani
Ministry of Justice
In office
1965–1969
Leader Field Marshal Ayub Khan
President High Court Bar Association, Lahore
In office
1975
President Supreme Court Bar Association
In office
1976
Chairman Human Right Society of Pakistan
In office
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Chairman Cultural Association of Pakistan
In office
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Chancellor of Hamdard University
In office
?
Personal details
Alma mater Government College University, Lahore

S.M. Zafar, (born 1930) is a Pakistani 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

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