Re: Choor, uckkay aur daku siasatdanoun to nikal do
khalid100 said:
It means there won't be anyone in the Parliment then?
ALL PARLIMENTARIANS ARE NOT BAD. PLEASE THINK OF THE GOOD ONES BEFORE MAKING A SWEEPING STATEMENT.YOU MAY ASK FOR AN EXAMPLE. HERE IT IS.THIS MAN HAS NOT EATEN ONE "LUKMA OF HARAM" IN HIS LIFE.
JUSTICE(R) IFTIKHAR AHMED CHEEMA
Justice (Rtd) Iftikhar Ahmad Cheema (born 1939) is a Pakistani lawyer and politician. Cheema became a judge, rising to the Punjab High Court and retiring in 2001. In 2008, he was elected a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
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1 Early life and education
2 Higher education and student politics
3 Judicial career
4 Political career
5 References
6 External links
[edit] Early life and education
Iftikhar Ahmad Cheema was born in 1939 in a small village near Wazirabad, Punjab. He took his higher secondary school education from Faisalabad and then graduated from Govt. College Lahore. He did his Masters from Punjab University, Lahore. Following the footsteps of his uncle and father-in-law, Justice (Rtd) Mohammad Afzal Cheema, he joined the Punjab University Law College for his Law (LLB) degree.
[edit] Higher education and student politics
He received his Law degree with a silver medal and proceeded to do (Bar at Law) from (Lincoln's Inn), UK in 1971. He completed his Bar at Law in 1974 and was offered a Job in one of the leading Law Practices in London. He refused and got involved in the Overseas Pakistani Students Politics and later became the President of the Pakistan Student Federation (a central organisation of 4000 Pakistani students studying in various institutions of the UK at the time) by defeating Nawabzada Ghazunfar Gull of Gujrat.
[edit] Judicial career
He returned to Pakistan in 1974 to join the Judiciary and served in various districts of Punjab as District and Sessions Judge including famous districts like Okara, Sahiwal, Chakwal, Sargodha, sheikhupura. He was elevated to become the Judge of the Lahore High Court in Punjab in 1998 and retired in 2001. He was then made the Chairman of the Labour Appellate Tribunal where he served for two years.
[edit] Political career
On the persuasion of the people of the constituency and encouragement from his mentor and Father in Law and also of his Uncle Justice (Rtd) Rafiq Tarar (Ex President of Pakistan), Justice (Rtd) Iftikhar Cheema contested the 2008 general elections as the Pakistan Muslim League (N) candidate and defeated a stalwart of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) Mr Hamid Nasir Chattha with a margin of 23000 votes and became a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
He has been elected as member of the most important Standing Committee "Law Justice and Human Rights" which is considering the most controvercial ordinance of the Pakistani History " NRO". The proposed bill which the committee is considering will provide immunity to President Asif Ali Zardari on his corruption cases.
Justice Cheema is the older brother of Zulfiqar A Cheema, one of the very honest and effective Senior police officers in Pakistan, who for the first time in the history of Police, with the help of Interpol got hold of the famous assassin of Punjab, Faiz Rasool alias Nanhu Ghoraya, while serving as Regional Police Officer Gujranwala Division. He is also said to be the main source of getting his brother the ticket of PML-N from Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif as he is greatly admired by the Sharif's Family for his honesty and integrity.