ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk will retire on August 16 after serving as judge and the Chief Justice for more than a decade. He will be 65 on August 16.
Nasir-ul-Mulk was born on August 17, 1950 in the valley of Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He was awarded degree of Barrister-at-Law by the Inner Temple, London (UK) in 1976.
He was called to the Bar in year 1977 and he practiced Law for more than 17 years as an Advocate. He also remained Visiting Faculty at Khyber Law College, Peshawar, at Peshawar University and at the then NWFP Provincial Services Academy, Peshawar.
Nasir-ul-Mulk was also elected twice as President of High Court Bar Association in 1990 and 1993 and remained Advocate General, NWFP in 1993.
He was elevated as Judge, Peshawar High Court on June 04, 1994 and the Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court on May 31, 2004. He was elevated as Judge, Supreme Court of Pakistan on April 05, 2005 and was appointed as Chief Justice of Pakistan on July 06, 2014.
Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, the Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan after the Chief Justice Nasir ul Mulk will be new Chief Justice as per seniority rule and will take oath of his office on August 17, 2015.
President Mamnoon Hussain will administer oath to Justice Jawwad S Khawaja as Chief Justice of Pakistan at a ceremony to be held at Aiwan e Sadr.
Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja was born on September 10, 1950, at Wazirabad, District Gujranwala. He did his graduation in Arts in the year 1971 from FC College, Lahore and LL.B from the Punjab University Law College, Lahore in 1973. He then obtained a Masters (LL.M) degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975.
Afterwards he was enrolled as Advocate of the High Court in 1975 and as Advocate of the Supreme Court in 1985. He remained in legal practice until his appointment as a Judge of the Lahore High Court on April 21, 1999. He resigned as judge of the Lahore High Court on March 19, 2007.
He then remained Professor of Law at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and headed the Department of Law and Policy at LUMS until his appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on June 5, 2009.
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