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Farooq Naek
فاروق نائیک
Naek in 2011
Minister of Justice
In office 11 April 2012 – 16 March 2013
Prime Minister
Yousaf Raza Gillani Raja Pervez Ashraf
Preceded by
Moula Bakhsh Chandio
Succeeded by
Ahmer Bilal Soofi (Acting)
In office 31 March 2008 – 10 March 2009
Prime Minister
Yousaf Raza Gillani
Preceded by
Wasi Zafar
Succeeded by
Babar Awan
5th Chairman of the Senate
In office 12 March 2009 – 12 March 2012
Preceded by
Muhammad Mian Soomro
Succeeded by
Nayyar Hussain Bukhari
Vice Chairman of the Pakistan Bar Council
In office 2024–2025
Personal details
Born
(1947-07-01) 1 July 1947 (age 76) Sialkot, Punjab, British India
Political party
Pakistan Peoples Party
Relations
Khawaja Muhammad Asif (cousin)[1]
Alma mater
University of Karachi
Farooq Hamid Naek (Urdu: فاروق حمید نائیک ; 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]
^"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.
^Govt Pak. "Minister for Law and Justice Division". Government of Pakistan. Ministry of Law and Justice. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
^Staff report (6 March 2012). "Govt decides to name Farooq Naek as new law minister". Pakistan Tribune. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
^Cite error: The named reference The News was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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