Background
Ahmed was born in Hyderabad, Sindh in 1949 to senior civil officer Wajihuddin Ahmed and Atiya Bano.
Ahmed was born in Hyderabad, Sindh in 1949 to senior civil officer Wajihuddin Ahmed and Atiya Bano.
He passed his Master of Arts from the University of Punjab, Lahore in 1969 and his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Karachi.
He was the oldest of five siblings, following him were Mehrunissa Ahmad Ali, Aminuddin Ahmed, Lalarukh Jamil and Nooruddin Ahmed. Sindh High Court
Ahmed was elevated to the bench on 11 January 1997. He resigned from the HRCP at that time.
During the same year, he gave a landmark judgement regarding monetary compensation to a detenu in a habeas corpus petition.
Supreme Court of Pakistan
He was elevated to the Supreme Court during the regime of President Pervez Musharraf but refused to take oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO). Once a democratic government was restored, he took the oath and served from September 19, 2008 until his death on April 18, 2009.
He died of a brain hemorrhage on 19 April 2009 in Karachi.