Shaukat Aziz (disambiguation) Shaukat Aziz ( Urdu: شوکت عزیز) may refer to:
Politics
* Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui (born 1959), Pakistani jurist and former senior Justice of the Islamabad High Court
* Shaukat Aziz (born 1949), 17th prime minister of Pakistan
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Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui ( ur, ; born 1 July 1959) is a Pakistani jurist and former senior Justice of the
Islamabad High Court
The Islamabad High Court is the senior court of the Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan, with appellate jurisdiction over the following district courts:
* Islamabad District Court (East)
* Islamabad District Court (West)
Justice Aamer Far ...
.
Early life and education
He was born on 1 July 1959 in
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...
University of the Punjab
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for LLB and MBA.
Judicial career
He started his career as an advocate of district courts in 1988. He was elevated to the advocate of High Court in 1990 and advocate of Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2001. He won the election in 2011 and became President of High Court Bar Association, Rawalpindi. On 21 November 2011, he was elevated as Justice of
Islamabad High Court
The Islamabad High Court is the senior court of the Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan, with appellate jurisdiction over the following district courts:
* Islamabad District Court (East)
* Islamabad District Court (West)
Justice Aamer Far ...
.
Removal
In 2018, he accused
Inter-Services Intelligence
The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI; ur, , bayn khadamatiy mukhabarati) is the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan. It is responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing any information from around the world that is deemed relevant ...
(ISI) for designing a coup against the
government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government ...
of
Nawaz Sharif
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi: ; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms. He is the longest-serving prime minister of Pak ...
. Later, in October, he was removed as Justice of the
Islamabad High Court
The Islamabad High Court is the senior court of the Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan, with appellate jurisdiction over the following district courts:
* Islamabad District Court (East)
* Islamabad District Court (West)
Justice Aamer Far ...
by the recommendations of
Supreme Judicial Council of Pakistan
The Supreme Judicial Council of Pakistan (Urdu: ) is a body of judges empowered undeof the constitution of Pakistan to hear cases of misconduct against judges.
Constitutional composition
The composition of the Council is set out in the constitutio ...