The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) () was established by the Parliament in 1973 under the Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act.Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act, 1973 Retrieved 9 August 2021 It is the highest elected body of lawyers in Pakistan.
It has twenty-two members elected from across the country representing each province. The members of the Pakistan Bar Council are elected on the basis of a single transferable vote by the members of the Provincial Bar Councils (i.e., Punjab Bar Council, Sindh Bar Council, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council, Balochistan Bar Council and Islamabad Bar Council).
Pakistan Bar Council is a regulating authority for lawyers in Pakistan and is one of the accredited councils by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.Pakistan Bar Council is one of the councils accredited by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan Higher Education Commission of Pakistan website, Retrieved 9 August 2021
Composition The Pakistan Bar Council consists of Chairman Executive Committee, Vice Chairman and Members of Pakistan Bar Council elected by the Members of Provincial Bar Councils. Members serve a term of five years.
Attorney General for Pakistan acts as ex officio Chairman of Pakistan Bar Council. Role of Attorney General is only to act as returning officer of Pakistan Bar Council elections and to publish the gazette. Attorney General does not exercise power in matters relating to functions of the Bar Council.
Electoral Officers Chairman Executive: The chairman of the executive committee is Chief Executive of Bar Council and is elected by the members of the Council in each year. Chairman Executive Committee has full authority to decide matters of Bar Council in every aspect. Vice Chairman: Vice Chairman is figurehead of Bar Council and is elected by the members of the Council in January each year. Vice Chairman is ex officio Member of each Committee of Bar Council. However, the executive powers of Bar Council rest with Chairman Executive Committee. Members of Pakistan Bar Council are elected after 4 years for a duration of 5 years by Elected Representatives of Lawyers of Pakistani Provincial Bar Councils.
Permanent Officer Secretary: A full-time employee of Grade 21, responsible to perform duties enshrined under the Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act, 1973. Subject to the provisions of the act and the rules, the secretary shall act under the supervisory control of the Executive Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council.
Function Only those advocates recognized by the Bar Council may represent clients in all the branches of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Pakistan Bar council is ..."responsible for safeguarding rights, interests and privileges of practicing lawyers, regulating their conduct and helping in the administration of justice".
List of Elected Leaders YearChairman ExecutiveVice Chairman 1993 Akram Sheikh Raja Haq Nawaz Khan 1994 G. M. Qureshi Muhammad Ashraf Wahlah 1995 Latif Khosa Abdus Samad Dogar 1996 Mushtaq A. Memon Hamid Khan 1997 Arif Hussain Khilji Javaid A. Khan 1998 Muhammad Ashraf Wahlah Muhammad Yousuf Leghari 1999 Muhammad Ashraf Wahlah Muhammad Yousuf Leghari 2000 Abdul Hakeem Khan H. Bijarani Ejaz Ahmed Rana 2001 Malik Rab Nawaz Noon Muhammad Naeem Goreja 2002 Abdul Haleem Pirzada Kadir Bakhsh Bhutto 2003 Muhammad Kazim Khan Abdul Rahim Kazi 2004 Qazi Muhammad Jamil H. Shakeel Ahmed 2005 Hamid Khan Hafiz Abdul Rehman Ansari 2006 Syed Qalb-i-Hassan Muhammad Azhar Chaudhry 2007 Qazi Anwar Mirza Aziz Akbar Baig 2008 Rasheed A. Razvi Haji Syed Rehman 2009 Muhammad Nasrullah Warraich Abu’l Inam 2010 Haji Syed Rehman Muhammad Kazim Khan 2011 Asrar-ul-Haq Mian Latif Afridi 2012 Burhan Moazzam Malik Akhtar Hussain 2013 Mian Abbas Ahmed Syed Qalb-i-Hassan 2014 Abrar Hasan Muhammad Ramzan Chaudhry 2015 Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon Azam Nazeer Tarar 2016 Abdul Fayaz Farogh Naseem 2017 Hafeez-ur-Rehman Chaudhry Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon 2018 Kamran Murtaza Ghulam Shabbir Shar Baloch 2019 Amjad Shah Hafiz Idris Sheikh 2020 Abid Saqi Sher Muhammad Khan 2021 Khush Dil Khan Muhammad Fahim Wali 2022 Masood Chishti Hafeez ul Rehman Chaudhry 2023 Hasan Raza Pasha Haroon ur Rashid 2024 Farooq H. Naek Riazat Ali Shar 2025 Tariq Afridi Tahir Nasrullah Warraich 2026 Munir A. Malik Masood Chishti
See also Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan Punjab Bar Council Lahore High Court Bar Association Sindh Bar Council Balochistan Bar Council Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council
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