Malik Mohammad Qayyum (; 18 January 1946 – 17 February 2022) was a Pakistani lawyer who was Senior Advocate Supreme Court and

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. He was replaced by Senator

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when President

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resigned on 18 August 2008. He became Attorney General following the resignation of

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. He was a Judge of the

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, which he resigned from after a phone transcript of his was released in which he was alleged to be approached by the then Prime Minister

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's government to fix judgement in a case before him involving

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. Qayyum denied that the voice in the telephone conversation was his. Agencies have examined the tapes and have expressed their concern that they could have been doctored although no final verdict is available. Qayyum was a senior lawyer of the

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and advised the sitting benches of the Higher Judiciary on constitutional issues. He was responsible for conducting the inquiry into match fixing which was lauded by the ICC known as the "Qayyum Report". Qayyum was the son of Justice Malik Muhammad Akram Arain and brother of Dr Mian Javed Akram (PIMS) and late former Minister for Commerce

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. His elder son Ahmad Qayyum is also a Barrister, once he paid tribute to Mr. Ijaz Hussain Batalvi while saying to Akhtar Aly Kureshy Advocate, legacy follower of Ijaz Batalvi, Ahmad has to join Batalvi office if alive. Qayyum died on 17 February 2022 in Lahore, at the age of 76. He was buried in the

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Judicial career

Qayyum was the subject of controversy as a judge of the

. During Prime Minister

's recommend term in office (1997–99), the then Chief of Ehtesab ccountabilityCell, Saif ur Rehman, filed cases against members of the Pakistan Peoples Party PP including high-profile cases of alleged corruption by former premier

and her husband

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, before Qayyum. Qayyum rejected pre-arrest bails, terminated temporary injunctions, and granted permissions of FIRs against PPP-connected persons and senior officers. Qayyum was a nominated judge on Ehtesab Bench of the Lahore High Court. The PPP said Qayyum (whose brother

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; a sitting MNA from PM Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N at that time) was biased. Malik was given an unopposed seat of the National Assembly vacated by the Prime Minister from Lahore. Qayyum also said that the

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was going to be rigged. On 10 March 2008 he rejected a plan by opposition lawmakers to reinstate the country's ousted Supreme Court justices within 30 days of parliament's first session, on the grounds that President Musharraf's dismissal of the judges was legal under the constitution.

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Judicial career

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