Babar Awan

Babar Awan
ظہیر الدین بابر اعوان
Advisor to Prime Minister for Parliamentary Affairs (Federal Minister)
In office
6 April 2020 – 10 April 2022
PresidentArif Alvi
Prime MinisterImran Khan
Preceded byAzam Khan Swati
In office
20 August 2018 – 4 September 2018
PresidentArif Alvi
Prime MinisterImran Khan
Succeeded byIjaz Ahmed Shah
Member of the Senate of Pakistan (Senator)
In office
12 March 2012 – 17 July 2017
ConstituencyPunjab, Pakistan
In office
22 February 2006 – 28 February 2012
ConstituencyPunjab, Pakistan
Vice President of Pakistan Peoples Party
In office
29 December 2011 – 2 May 2012
ChairmanBilawal Bhutto Zardari
Co-ChairmanAsif Ali Zardari
Preceded byShah Mahmood Qureshi
Succeeded byManzoor Wattoo
Federal Minister for Law and Justice
In office
3 November 2008 – 12 April 2011
PresidentAsif Ali Zardari
Prime MinisterYusuf Raza Gillani
Preceded byFarooq H. Naek
Succeeded byMoula Bakhsh Chandio
Personal details
Born
Zaheer-ud-din Babar Awan
CitizenshipPakistani
NationalityPakistani
Political partyPTI (2017–present)
Other political
affiliations
PPP (1997–2017)
RelationsGhulam Farooq Awan (brother) Malik Shakeel Awan (nephew)
ResidenceIslamabad
Alma materUniversity of Punjab
Karachi University
Monticello University
OccupationLawyer
AwardsSitara-e-Imtiaz (2012)
Supreme Court of Pakistan

Zaheer-ud-din Babar Awan (Urdu: ظہیر الدین بابر اعوان; SI), is a Pakistani politician, senior lawyer, author, analyst, columnist, and leftist writer who served as Adviser to Prime Minister for Parliamentary Affairs from April 2020 to 10 April 2022, and before that as the Federal Law Minister in the cabinet of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. He also served as a junior Pakistani Senator of Punjab Province from 2012 to 2017.[1] Later he joined PTI to serve as Member Executive Council of PTI.

He regularly writes and publishes on left-wing philosophy.[1] He extensively writes political columns in a leading Urdu newspaper, the Daily Jang, in support of social democracy and social justice.[2][3]

  1. ^ a b "Dr. Babar Awan". Pakistan Herald. Archived from the original on 7 February 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  2. ^ Dr. Babar Awan – Urdu columns, The News, 2013, archived from the original on 7 July 2015, retrieved 11 August 2013
  3. ^ "Babar Awan to be appointed as advisor for Parliamentary Affairs – Daily Times". Dailytimes.com.pk. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.