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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 * Shoukat A ...
. 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 ...
, Pakistan. He completed his early education from Gordon College, Rawalpindi. He then went to the
University of the Punjab The University of the Punjab (Urdu, pnb, ), also referred to as Punjab University, is a public, research, coeducational higher education institution located in Lahore, Pakistan. Punjab University is the oldest public university in Pakistan. ...
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 A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. 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 ...
to the
President of Pakistan The president of Pakistan ( ur, , translit=s̤adr-i Pākiṣṭān), officially the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is the ceremonial head of state of Pakistan and the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces.Living people 1959 births Government Gordon College alumni University of the Punjab alumni People from Rawalpindi Judges of the Islamabad High Court Pakistani lawyers Inter-Services Intelligence operations {{Pakistan-bio-stub