Akhtar Aly Kureshy

Kureshy was born into a business family, and grew up in Lahore. His father and elder brothers are successful businessmen. He was a social worker in his student time and remained joint secretary and then General Secretary of the Social Welfare Society of Lahore. He graduated from University of the Punjab 1986. He earned his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Punjab University Law College in 1990 to become a lawyer. He was first in his family to enter the legal profession as an advocate. His younger daughter Aman Anus followed him to become a lawyer. He received a master's degree in political science from the University of the Punjab in 1992 and diplomas in labor law and intellectual property law. He was a member of the American Center (Library) Lahore where he completed an American history course in 1992 from the American Center, American Embassy Islamabad.[8][9]

In 1992, Kureshy joined the Law Chamber of Ijaz Husain Batalvi, a barrister, who was the public prosecutor in former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's murder trial case[10] and Defense Counsel in former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's plane hijacking case after General Pervez Musharraf's revolt in the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état.[11] and remained with Batalvi until his death on 7 March 2004. Kureshy enrolled as Advocate to the Lahore High Court in 1992 and Advocate to the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2005. He remained on the Member Executive Lahore High Court Bar Association. He also worked as standing counsel for Pakistan and advisor to the Honorary Consulate General of Kazakhstan Embassy, Lahore. He remain associated with Superior College of Law, Superior University,[12] Presently, he delivers lecture at SOL (School of Law).

Kureshy practices his services in constitutional law, administrative law, banking regulation laws, corporate law matters and criminal law cases. He was deputed and completed various Superior Court assignments, and was appointed by Lahore High Court as an official liquidator, court auctioneer and Local Commissioner to act on behalf of the Court to resolve pending matters.[13]

Kureshy appeared in the 18th edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World in 2001. Inclusion of a name is limited to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in their own fields of endeavor and who have, thereby, contributed significantly to the betterment of contemporary society.[23] In the same edition the President of Pakistan General Parvaiz Musharaf name was also appeared.

Kureshy remain associated as Syndicate Advisor to Civil Services Academy DMG group Lahore 2007–09 to interact and train to newly appointed government officers of Central Superior Services of Pakistan. There was a group of four to eight students who deputed a special assignment of legal proposition in their final exam, to suggest and present a plausible solution of a national issue through their brilliance and wisdom under the mentorship of their Syndicate Advisor who indulge in to motivate them to get excellence.[24]

Kureshy is a regular news columnist on current as well as legal issues, and has been published in national Pakistani newspapers like The News International, The Nation, Daily Jang, The law, Nawaiwaqt, PLJ and PLD and Pakistan Today.[25]

Ashtar Ausaf Ali, Advocate General Punjab, officially sent a summary in March 2012 for the appointment of Kureshy as Additional Advocate General Punjab to the Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif in April 2012. Sharif did not approve that summary on the ground that Kureshy belonged to the Chamber of Ijaz Husain Batalvi, who broke the secret of the Sharif family's Exile Agreement with General Pervez Musharraf.[26][27] According to the Sharif family, the exile agreement was for five years, whereas ex-Prime Minister Shujaat Hussain and Federal Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad gave interviews on Geo News that the exile agreement was of ten years as Ijaz Hussain Batalvi himself had told them.[28][26][29] Either the exile agreement was for five years or ten years but this controversy victimized Akhtar Aly Kureshy, however, the Batalvi family rejected both versions.[30][31][26][32]

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