Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui

Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui

Infobox Officeholder
name = Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui
سعيد الزمان صدیقی


caption =
nationality = Pakistani
order = 15th Chief Justice of Pakistan
term_start = 1 July 1999
term_end = 25 January 2000 was until Dec,2005
predecessor = Ajmal Mian
successor = Irshad Hasan Khan
birth_date =
birth_place = flagicon|Pakistan Pakistan
dead = Alive

Justice (R) Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui or Saeed-uz-zaman Siddiqui (Urdu: سعيد الزمان صدیقی ) (born 1 December 1937) was Chief Justice of Pakistan during the 1999 military coup by President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf. He defied the request given by Musharraf via the Law Minister and Legal Advisor Sharifuddin Pirzada to take a new oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) saying that "taking oath under the PCO, in my opinion, will be a deviation from the oath I had taken to defend the constitution of 1973". As a consequence of this he was forced to step down from his position, by President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf. The tenure time period was shortened due to his refusal to take the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) Oath, prescribed by President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf to legitimize the LFO. After a long discussion with 4 Army generals send to his residence by General Musharraf; namely, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Moinuddin Haider (Federal Interior Minister), Lt. Gen. Ehsan ul Haq (Corps Commander), Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmed (Director General ISI) and Brig. Javed Ashraf Bajwa Justice Siddiqui refused to take the Oath they left and on orders of the GHQ he and his family were placed under house arrest. On 25 August 2008, Nawaz Sharif announced that Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui would be Pakistan Muslim League (N) nominee to replace Pervez Musharraf as President of Pakistan [ [http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/25/sharif-withdraws-party-from-pakistan-ruling-coalition/ CNN Wire: Sharif withdraws party from Pakistan ruling coalition] ] . He lost the 6 September 2008 elections to Asif Ali Zardari, who was elected President of Pakistan. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7600917.stm news.bbc.co.uk, Bhutto's widower wins presidency] ] [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/world/asia/07zardari.html?hp nytimes.com, Zardari Is Elected Pakistan’s President] ]

Education

Justice Saeeduzzaman received his school education at Lucknow and Dhaka; passed Matriculation from the Board of Secondary Education, Dhaka (1952); passed Intermediate Science (Engineering Group) from University of Dacca (1954); passed B.A. from University of Karachi (1958); passed LL.B. from University of Karachi (1960).

Career

Justice Saeeduzzaman joined the Bar (February 1961); enrolled as Advocate of High Court of West Pakistan (November 1963); enrolled as Advocate of Supreme Court of Pakistan (November 1969); elected Joint Secretary, Karachi High Court Bar Association (1967); elected Member of Managing Committee of Karachi High Court Bar Association (1968-69); elected Honorary Secretary of High Court Bar Library (1977) and continued as such until elevated as Judge of Sindh High Court on 05-05-1980.He was appointed as Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court on 05-11-1990. Appointed as Judge, Supreme Court of Pakistan on 23-05-1992. Appointed as Chief Justice of Pakistan/Chairman Pakistan Law Commission w.e.f. 01-07-1999 till 1 December 2005.

Appointments

* Appointed Member of Election Commission of Pakistan on 09-8-1980.

* Appointed as Chairman Rule Committee of High Court of Sindh on 01-02-1986.

* Appointed Chairman Sindh Zakat Council on 13-09-1988.

* Appointed as Member of Company Law Commission on 07-06-1989.

* Appointed Acting Governor of Sindh from 27-07-1990 to 30-07-1990.

* Appointed Acting Chief Justice of High Court of Sindh from 19 September 1990 to 19 October 1990.

* Appointed as 15th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 1 July 1999 to 25 January 2000 was until Dec,2005

Activities

* Appointed as Member of 3-men Contact Group, by Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Conference to investigate the plight of Muslim minority in Bulgaria in May 1986. He presented the first report of the group to the 17th Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers held at Amman, Jordan, in March 1988, a second report to the 18th Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers at Riyadh in March 1989, and the third report to the 19th Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers at Cairo in July 1990.
* Also presented a preliminary report on the plight of Muslim minority in Bulgaria in the Extraordinary Session of Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers in New York in October, 1989. Attended the 17th, 18th, 19th and the Extraordinary Session of Islamic Conferences of Foreign Ministers in Amman, Riyadh, Cairo and New York on special invitation of Secretary-General of Organization of Islamic Conference.
* He was awarded an honorary Bar Degree from the Inns of Court.
* He is presently the Chairman of numerous organizations, some of which are The Council for Foreign Relations Economic Affairs and Law and President of the Poor Patient's Society of Pakistan. He is the Chairman of the World Bank supported Organization for Alternative Dispute Resolution (Pakistan).
* He is also the nominee judge for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at Hague, from Pakistan.
* On 25 August 2008, Nawaz Sharif announced that Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui would be Pakistan Muslim League (N) nominee to replace Pervez Musharraf as President of Pakistan.

ee also

* Supreme Court of Pakistan
* Chief Justices of Pakistan
* Shaikh Siddiqui
* Siddiqui
* Nawaz Sharif
* Pakistan Muslim League (N)
* Provisional Constitutional Order
* List of Pakistanis

References


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