Omar Sial (born 21 October 1969) has been Justice of the

Sindh High Court The High Court of Sindh () ( Sindhi: سنڌ ھائي ڪورٽ) is the highest judicial institution of the Pakistani province of Sindh. Established in 1906, the Court situated in the provincial capital at Karachi. Apart from being the highest ...

since 30 November 2016.

Early life and education

Sial completed his early education at

Karachi Grammar School Karachi Grammar School is an independent, English-medium school located in 3 different campuses across Karachi. The main and oldest campus is located in Saddar, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is a highly selective, coeducational day school (formerl ...

. He obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from S.M. Law College, Karachi, and later pursued a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree at the

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in England. He is a Lady Noon Scholar and a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. Sial is the Pakistan Representative for Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, and is part of the research team at the Hauser Global Law School Program,

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Career

Sial began his legal career in March 1999 as an advocate in the District Courts of Sindh. He was admitted to practice before the High Courts of Pakistan in March 2001. Alongside his private legal practice, he was appointed as a Special Prosecutor for the Anti-Narcotics Force in 2014 and served in that role until his elevation to the bench on 30 November 2016 as an Additional Judge of the Sindh High Court. He was confirmed as a permanent judge on 27 November 2017. He has also served as the Monitoring Judge of the Anti-Terrorism Courts of Sindh and represented the Sindh High Court on the Syndicates of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto University of Medicine in Larkana and the University of Sufism and Modern Sciences in Bhit Shah. Currently, he is a member of the Syndicates of the University of Sindh and the Dadabhoy Institute of Education.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sial, Omar 1969 births Living people Judges of the Sindh High Court