Abdul Hameed Dogar
Abdul Hameed Dogar | |
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| De facto Chief Justice of Pakistan | |
| Assumed office 3 November 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 March 1944 Gaarhi Mori, Khairpur, Pakistan |
| Nationality |  Pakistani |
Abdul Hameed Dogar (born 22 March 1944) is the de facto Chief Justice of Pakistan, a position to which he took oath to General Pervez Musharaff, in the immediate aftermath of Chief of Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf's 3 November 2007 declaration of a state of emergency, defacto Martial Law, suspension of the constitution.
Immediately following the oath by Dogar, the de jure (Legal) Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry of Pakistan was focibly removed from the Supreme Court and arrested by the troops belonging to the 111 brigade of Pakistan Army sent by General Musharraf. This arrest of the Legal Chief Justice of Pakistan has made Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry popular among the masses.
Dogar took his new oath on 3 November2007. He is one of the four Supreme Court Judges (out of a total of nineteen ) who have decided to do so.
Dogar's current status is de facto Chief Justice of Pakistan. He was fourth senior most judge on the court at the time constitution was suspended. His status even as a supreme court judge is highly controversial as he has violated orders of an eight-member bench which barred all the judges from taking oath under the provisional constitutional order. Chief Justice Iftikhar, Justice Bhagwandas and Justice Javed Iqbal, who were senior to Dogar, have been arrested by the Musharraf regime. These three judges and four others also passed an order declaring the PCO to be unconstituional, forbidding the country's judges to take oath under the PCO.[citation needed]
Justice Dogar was born in the village of Gaarhi Mori, in Khairpur district, Sindh province. He joined the judicial service on 10 April 1995 with an appointment to the Sindh High Court, and was elevated to the Supreme Court on 28 April 2000.
Famous cases
- Altaf Hussain & Major Kaleem Case
A division bench of the Sindh High Court comprising Mr. Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui and Mr. Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, vindicated Altaf Hussain, founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), and 18 others in the Major Kaleem Case, on 6 February 1998. Those acquitted included former Secretary General Dr. Imran Farooq, former central leader Saleem Shahzad, former Sindh Minister Dr. Safdar Baqri, Sector incharges Ashfaq Chief, Haji Jalal, and Jawed Kazmi.
| Preceded by Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry |
Chief Justice of Pakistan | Succeeded by incumbent |