ISLAMABAD: Barrister Farogh Naseem was sworn in as the federal minister for law for the third time, after he was administered oath by President Arif Alvi here on Friday. Dr Naseem had resigned on June 1st, 2020 for second time as Minister for Law and Justice to represent the federal government in the Justice Qazi Faez Isa's petition against the Presidential Reference because Khalid Jawed Khan, who replaced Anwar Mansoor Khan as Attorney General for Pakistan, had refused to represent the federal government in Justice Faez's petition.

First time, he had resigned on 29th November, 2019, to appear on behalf of Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa before a three-judge bench of the apex court that heard a petition against the extension/re-appointment of General Bajwa as the chief of army staff.

Farogh Naseem was sworn in as Federal Minister for Law and Justice on August 20, 2018, in the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Imran Khan. Farogh Naseem, while talking to Business Recorder on June 27, had said: "I am now relaxing at home."

Asked why he has not taken oath, he had replied; "what is the hurry", adding "I want sometime as [I am] tired and stressed after arguing the Federation's stance on [the] Presidential Reference before the Supreme Court."

He had said the job of Law Ministry was to reform laws. "We have brought 12 law reforms in the last two years, which has never happened in the past. Reforms that have been admired by British and American legal community and they have indicated they would like the same laws in their own countries," he had added.

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