ISLAMABAD : On Tuesday, President Dr. Arif Alvi chose Justice Iqbal Hameed Ur Rahman to be the top justice of the Federal Shariat Court for three years.
Article 175(A)-13 of the Pakistani Constitution says that the president had to approve the appointment. The President’s House said that the president did approve the appointment.
Justice Iqbal Hameed used to be a judge on Pakistan’s Supreme Court.
A quick look at the life of Justice Rahman
Justice Rahman comes from a legal family. Both his father and grandpa were well-known judges in India before its split up.
In 1956, Justice Rahman, born in Dhaka, once Dacca. He went to the Punjab University, Law College in Lahore to get his LLB. In 1980, he graduated as a trained lawyer.
The lawyer was then signed up as an advocate for the High Court in 1983 and for the Supreme Court in 1997.
Justice Rahman chosen as the secretary of the Lahore High Court (LHC) Bar Association in 1998. In 2006, he made an extra judge of the high court.
After a year, he made a regular judge at the LHC.
The 18th Amendment to Pakistan’s Constitution and the creation of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) made him the first constitutional chief justice of the IHC on January 3, 2011. Two years later, he became a judge on Pakistan’s Supreme Court.
His father, Justice Hamood ur Rahman, was Pakistan’s top justice in 1968. He also wrote the “Hamood ur Rahman Commission Report,” which looked into what happened before Pakistan broke up in 1971.
In 1953, Hamood was the lawyer in charge of East Pakistan.
