Ashtar Ausaf Ali

Ashtar Ausaf Ali
اشتر اوصاف علی
29th and 32nd Attorney-General for Pakistan
In office
9 May 2022 – 19 January 2023
PresidentArif Alvi
Prime MinisterShehbaz Sharif
Preceded byKhalid Jawed Khan
Succeeded byShehzad Ata Elahi
In office
29 March 2016 – 21 June 2018
PresidentMamnoon Hussain
Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
Nasir-ul-Mulk
Preceded bySalman Aslam Butt
Succeeded byKhalid Jawed Khan
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister
on Law and Justice
In office
25 February 2015 – 28 March 2016
Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif
Succeeded byZafarullah Khan
29th and 35th Advocate General of Punjab
In office
2 January 2012 – 5 April 2013
GovernorLatif Khosa
Preceded byKhawaja Haris
Succeeded byShahid Karim
In office
20 November 1998 – 12 October 1999
GovernorShahid Hamid
Preceded byKhawaja Muhammad Sharif
Succeeded byMaqbool Elahi Malik
3rd Prosecutor General of Punjab
In office
15 September 2011 – 2 January 2012
GovernorLatif Khosa
Preceded bySyed Zahid Hussain
Succeeded bySadaqat Ali Khan
Personal details
Born (1950-06-19) 19 June 1950 (age 74)
Lahore, Pakistan
ChildrenFatima Ali
Alma materForman Christian College
Punjab University
George Washington University
OccupationLawyer
AwardsSitara-e-Imtiaz

Ashtar Ausaf Ali (born 19 June 1950) is a Pakistani lawyer who twice served as the Attorney General for Pakistan from 2016 to 2018, and from 2022 to 2023. In his first term, he co-drafted the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, which merged the Federally Administered Tribal Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Ausaf previously served as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Law and Justice from 2015 to 2016, twice as Advocate General of Punjab from 1998 to 1999 and 2012 to 2013, and as Prosecutor General of the province from 2011 to 2012.[1]

His daughter was the chef Fatima Ali, who died of cancer in 2019, at the age of 29.[2][3]

  1. ^ "LHC restrains Punjab government from removing law officers". dailytimes.com. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  2. ^ Mays, Jeffrey C. (27 January 2019). "Fatima Ali Obituary". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  3. ^ Jalil, Xari (2 February 2019). "Chef Fatima Ali laid to rest by family and friends in Lahore". Images. Dawn.