Farooq Naek

Farooq Naek
فاروق نائیک
Naek in 2011
Minister of Justice
In office
11 April 2012 – 16 March 2013
Prime MinisterYousaf Raza Gillani
Raja Pervaiz Ashraf
Preceded byMoula Bakhsh Chandio
Succeeded byAhmer Bilal Soofi (Acting)
In office
31 March 2008 – 10 March 2009
Prime MinisterYusuf Raza Gillani
Preceded byWasi Zafar
Succeeded byBabar Awan
5th Chairman of the Senate
In office
12 March 2009 – 12 March 2012
Preceded byMuhammad Mian Soomro
Succeeded byNayyar Hussain Bukhari
Chairman Executive of the Pakistan Bar Council
In office
2024–2025
Personal details
Born (1947-07-01) 1 July 1947 (age 77)
Sialkot, Punjab, British India
Political partyPPP (1971-present)
RelationsKhawaja Asif (cousin)[1]
Alma materUniversity of Karachi

Farooq Hamid Naek (Urdu: فاروق حمید نائیک ; born 1 July 1947) also spelled Farooq H. Naik, is a Pakistani politician and lawyer, who served as the Chairman Senate, Minister of Law as well as headed the Ministry of Justice in the government led by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.[2]

After successfully contesting in the 2008 general elections, Naek won the bid for the law ministry, but ascended to Chairman of the Senate in 2009. Due to cabinet reshuffle by Gillani in 2012, he was again appointed as law minister of the country.[3] He is a high-ranking member of the central committee of the Pakistan Peoples Party, and has been a personal lawyer and legal counselor in the legal cases leveled up against Benazir Bhutto and her spouse Asif Ali Zardari since 1996.[4]

  1. ^ "Marriage of Convenience". BOL News. 7 August 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2023. Former Senate chairman and senior PPP leader Farooq H Naek and incumbent Defence Minister Khawaja Asif are the maternal cousins. The wives of both the politicians are real sisters.
  2. ^ Govt Pak. "Minister for Law and Justice Division". Government of Pakistan. Ministry of Law and Justice. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
  3. ^ Staff report (6 March 2012). "Govt decides to name Farooq Naek as new law minister". Pakistan Tribune. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference The News was invoked but never defined (see the help page).