Abdul Hafiz Pirzada

Abdul Hafiz Pirzada ( Urdu عبدالحفیظ پیرزادہ; * February 24, 1935 in Sukkur , British India , today: Sindh , Pakistan ; † September 1, 2015 in Reading , Berkshire , England ) was a Pakistani politician .

Life

Pirzada was the son of the politician Pirzada Abdus Sattar , who was Chief Minister of Sindh Province between 1953 and 1954 . After leaving school, he graduated in Law and received his legal admission as a barrister at the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) from Lincoln's Inn . Upon his return, he took up a legal practice in the Bar Association of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1957 and was admitted to the High Court of West Pakistan. In 1959 he opened his own law firm, Hafeez Pirzada Law Associates, in Karachi and was admitted to the bar at the Supreme Court.

During the government of President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, he served as Minister of Education between 1971 and 1973 and was also Minister of Information from 1971 to 1972 and then Minister of Inter-Provincial Coordination between 1972 and 1973. During the following term of office of President Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, he first held the office of Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto between 1973 and 1974, and in this role he played a key role in the drafting and adoption of the 1973 constitution. He then served as Minister of Education and Provincial Coordination from 1974 to 1977. Most recently he succeeded Rana Mohammad Hanif Khan as Pakistan's Finance Minister on March 30, 1977 and held this ministerial office until July 5, 1977. He then resumed his work as a lawyer at the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

Pirzada was married and the father of two sons and two daughters.

Web links

• Entry in rulers.org
• Pakistan: Key Ministries
• Author of 1973 Constitution Abdul Hafeez Pirzada passes away . In: The Express Tribune of September 2, 2015