Farogh Naseem

Barrister Dr. Mohammad Farogh Naseem is a leading constitutional lawyer from Pakistan being the youngest but the most qualified lawyer to hold the office of Advocate General of Sindh [http://www.dawn.com/2008/01/08/local10.htm] .

Education

Farogh holds LL.B. (Hons) from the University of Wales and LL.M. from the London School of Economics and PhD in comparative constitutional law from the University of London. He qualified as a barrister from Lincoln’s Inn.

Career

A member of the board of studies, faculty of law, University of Karachi, Farogh has been teaching law at the Sindh Judicial Academy, Sindh Muslim Law College and Hamdard Law College. At 41, the Karachi-born advocate has about 18 years experience in legal practice. Among the high-profile cases conducted by him is the 1996-97 Sindh Assembly dissolution case. A frequent contributor to law journals, he has also authored two books. He addressed many international seminars and has a number of reported judgments to his credit.

Life

His father, Mohammad Naseem, is also a practicing lawyer, and the late Justice M.B. Ahmad, an ICS officer who also served as the first secretary of the constituent assembly of Pakistan before being elevated as a judge of the Sindh High Court, was his paternal uncle.

References

[http://www.hamdard.edu.pk/lawfaculty.html Hamdard Law School]

[http://www.dawn.com/2008/01/08/local10.htm DAWN Profile]