Justice Zafar Ahmed Rajput | Pakistan

Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori administers the oath of office to Justice Zafar Ahmed Rajput, with Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and Senior Puisne Judge Justice Muhammad Iqbal Kalhoro seated alongside them, during a ceremony at Governor House. —Dawn KARACHI: Justice Zafar Ahmed Rajput took the oath as the chief justice of the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Saturday. Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori administered the oath at a ceremony held on the premises of the Governor House. Besides judges of the high court, the event was attended by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Zia-ul-Hassan Lanjar, senior lawyers, federal and provincial law officers and foreign dignitaries. Justice Rajput has already been serving as the acting chief justice of the SHC since Sept 15. He became the senior-most judge of the SHC after the retirement of the then chief justice Mohammad Junaid Ghaffar. He was notified as the regular chief justice by the Ministry ...

Justice Zafar Ahmed Rajput has assumed charge as Acting Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court.

Justice Zafar Ahmed Rajput was appointed as the Sindh High Court’s (SHC) acting chief justice on Saturday. A notification issued by the law ministry said President Asif Ali Zardari appointed the SHC’s senior puisne judge to the position under Article 196 of the Constitution. It added that he would act in the role from the date he took his oath of office till the “appointment of regular chief justice by the Judicial Commission of Pakistan”. Incumbent SHC Chief Justice Muhammad Junaid Ghaffar retired today. According to the SHC website, Justice Rajput was born on October 16, 1965, in Hyderabad. He did his Bachelor in Arts from Government City Arts College, LLB from Government Jinnah Law College and Masters in International Relations from the University of Sindh. Justice Rajput was enrolled with the Sindh Bar Council as an advocate in 1990 and became an advocate of the high court in 2001. He practised law for three years before he was selected as a judicial magistrate in 1993. He was elevated as a judge of the S...