Khalid Ishaq
Pakistani jurist (1926–2004)
Khalid Muhammad Ishaq (Sindhi: خالد محمد اسحاق; 16 August 1926 – 7 February 2004) was a Pakistani jurist and scholar of law, Islamic studies and literature. He served as Additional Advocate General of West Pakistan from 1958 and as Advocate General from 1963, resigning the following year to establish his own practice. He was elected president of the Sindh High Court Bar Association in 1965 and practised as a senior advocate before the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He was also a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology of Pakistan and donated an extensive personal library to the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), where it is housed in the Khalid Ishaq Wing.
Early life and education
Ishaq was born on 16 August 1926 in Shikarpur, Sindh, to Mohammed Ishaq and Begum Talat Farrukh Ahmed Ishaq. His maternal grandfather, Maulvi Ziauddin Ahmed, served as a Deputy Inspector General in the Bombay Sind Presidency.
Ishaq graduated with a degree in Arabic from D. J. Science College in 1945. He subsequently earned an MA from Bombay University and an LLB at Shahani Law College.
Legal career
Ishaq began legal practice in 1948. He later recounted that he had initially intended to join the civil service but turned to law after being passed over for a senior position in the civil service examination on what he described as ethnic grounds.
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