Sharifuddin Pirzada

NI Sharifuddin Pirzada
شریف الدین پیرزادہ سيد
Pirzada in 2007
9th Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 31 August 1966 – 1 May 1968
President	Ayub Khan
Preceded by	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Succeeded by	Mian Arshad Hussain
Attorney General of Pakistan
In office 1968–1971
President	Yahya Khan
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Yahya Bakhtiar
In office 1977–1984
Preceded by	Yahya Bakhtiar
Succeeded by	Aziz A. Munshi
Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
In office 1985–1988
Preceded by	Habib Chatty
Succeeded by	Hamid Algabid
Personal details
Born	(1923-06-12)12 June 1923 Burhanpur, British India (now in Madhya Pradesh, India)
Died	2 June 2017(2017-06-02) (aged 93) Karachi, Pakistan
Political party	All-India Muslim League (Before 1947) Muslim League (1947–1958)
Alma mater	University of Mumbai Inns of Court School of Law
Awards	Nishan-e-Imtiaz (1998)

Sharifuddin Pirzada (شریف الدین پیرزادہ سيد) NI (12 June 1923 – 2 June 2017) was a Pakistani Barrister who served as a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

Personal life

Sharifuddin Pirzada was born in the city of Burhanpur, in what is today Madhya Pradesh, to parents Mir Niazi Pirzada and his wife, Fatima. His father was a noted barrister as well, serving in the Indian Civil Service at the time and posted in the state.^{[citation needed]}

He died on 2 June 2017, aged 93.^[1][2][3][4]

Awards

• Awarded Nishan-i-Imtiaz in 1998

Publications

• Pakistan at a Glance, Bombay 1941.
• Jinnah on Pakistan, Bombay 1943.
• Leaders Correspondence with Jinnah.
• Evolution of Pakistan, Karachi 1962 (also published in Urdu and Arabic).
• Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Remedies in Pakistan, Lahore 1966.
• The Pakistan Resolution and the historic Lahore Session. Islamabad 1970.
• Foundation of Pakistan (3 volumes), 1971.
• Some Aspects of Quaid-i-Azam's Life 1978.
• Collected Works of Quaid-i-Azam Jinnah (3 volumes).
• Dissolution of Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, Karachi 1985.

References

External links

• http://www.pirzada.com
• BBC Hardtalk interview of Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada

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