Career
Worked at GEOFFREY AND KHITRAN, Counsellors at Law and Notaries Public (Lahore) specializing in General Law Practice, Patents, Trademarks, Passing off Litigation, Arbitration, Service of Documents, Execution of Decrees, Foreign Investments, Collection of Debts owed in Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Bachelor of Arts, Government College, Lahore. Bachelor of Laws, summa cum laude, Punjab.
Master of Arts, Sangamon State (Now University of Illinois at Springfield) 1972.
Master of Laws, with Honor Paper, Harvard Law School, 1966. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Doctor of Philosophy Read U.
Postgraduate Studies in Business Administration. Bradford University Management Centre (Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship, 1975).
Counsellor-at-Law, United States Federal Courts, United States Tax Court.
Advocate (admitted in 1959) Pakistan High Courts, Pakistan Supreme Court and entitled to practice in the United Arab Emirates. Pupillage under Justice Malik Mohammed Akram (Later Chief Justice of Pakistan) 1959-1960. Recipient: Gold Medal in Jurisprudence (Punjab University Law College), 1958.
Paris Biennale Award, 1965.
Sir Herbert Read Medal, 1992. Listed in the Debrett"s People of Today, 1994.
Who"s Who in the World, Who"s Who in America (under Geoffrey) and Who"s Who in American Law, First Edition. Formerly Assistant Attorney-General 1972-1973 of the State of Illinois (United States of America), Legal Counsel (Human Rights), United Nations Secretariat, New York 1966-1967 and Special Advisor to the President of Pakistan, 1980-1984.
Drafted the Establishment of the Office of Ombudsman (Presidential Executive) Order of 1983law designed to diagnose and exorcise bureaucratic maladministration also Article 164 of the Law of Evidence promulgated by the Government of Pakistan and other legal reforms.
Visiting Distinguished Professor, Lahore College of Law, Punjab University. University Silver Jubilee Professor, Sir Herbert Read University Law Centre. One of the Regents of the Hunerkada College of Art, Allama Iqbal University.
Written as "Most Highly Recommended" in the write-up on South Asia"s "Lawyers" Lawyers" in The Global Law & Business, of London, November 1995.
Company-Author: International Recognition and Enforcement of Money Judgments," American Bar Association/Business Law Incorporated., Ohio, 1994. World Agency and Distribution Law, CILS/ Matthew Bender, 1996.
International Execution against Judgment Debtors, CILS/ Sweet and Maxwell, London, 1997. Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Pakistan, Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, 1997.
Reinventing Justice, SMJT/Rothenstein, Barr and Serota, 1997.
This law firm, in order not to even subliminally risk any Conflict of Interests, does not accept any instructions or referrals from any organization of Pakistani origin. This means that we can provide flawlessly ethical and undivided attention to our international clients. Many enterprises (not our clients) have suffered misdirection in the past because about 20-22 inter-related, often collusive families still control most of the major operations in Pakistan.
