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Syed Ali Zafar | |
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Member of the Senate of Pakistan | |
Assumed office March 2021 | |
President | Arif Alvi Asif Ali Zardari |
Prime Minister | Imran Khan Shehbaz Sharif |
Federal Minister for Law and Justice | |
In office 5 June 2018 – 15 August 2018 | |
President | Mamnoon Hussain |
Prime Minister | Nasirul Mulk |
Preceded by | Bashir Virk |
Succeeded by | Farogh Naseem |
President Supreme Court of Pakistan | |
In office 2015–2016 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
Political party | PTI (2019-present) |
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Alma mater | London School of Economics |
Profession | Barrister, advisor and consultant |
Syed Ali Zafar (Urdu: علی ظفر ) is a Pakistani senator and barrister who was born and grew up in Lahore.[1] He was President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan from 2015 to 2016 and also was acting as Minister for Law and Justice of Pakistan from 5th June to 15th August in 2018. He remained President of the Pakistan chapter of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Law and a senior partner of Mandviwalla & Zafar, legal consultants. He is associated [vague] as vice-president of the Human Rights Society of Pakistan. He earned his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the London School of Economics in 1983 and was called to the Bar in England and Wales in 1984. He is also a political analyst and regularly writes in The Express Tribune on various political, social and legal issues of Pakistan.[2] He joined the present ruling party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), in 2019.[3]