Nasirul Mulk

Upon returning to Pakistan, Mulk practiced law at Peshawar High Court, and briefly tenured as professor of law at the Peshawar University while practicing as a legal practitioner at Peshawar.[11] He also lectured courses on civil law as visiting scholar at the Pakistan Administrative Staff College.[3] Mulk was regarded as notable professor of law at the Peshawar University, and his students often remembered him as "a professor who had complete command on his subject and avoided controversies."[16] Mulk was noted his college students as he always came into the classroom well prepared.[16]

Mulk practiced law for over 17 years at the Peshawar High Court where he built his reputation for competency and a positive approach toward the cases he contested.[13] Mulk was elected Secretary-General of the Peshawar High Court Bar in 1981.[11] He later became president of Peshawar High Court Bar on two occasions, first elected in 1990 and again in 1993.[13] From 1993–94, Mulk was appointed as an advocate general of provincial government of Khyber–Pakhtunkhwa, assisting in legal matters and affairs.[3]

After meeting qualifications for being a judge, Mulk was ascended as judge at the Peshawar High Court on 6 June 1994—a post he retained until 2004.[11] Recommendations approved by Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Mulk was appointed as Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court on 31 July 2004, and moved to Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2005.[13][17]

Justice Mulk presided and heard the Mukhtār Mā'ī case—the controversial and highly publicized case regarded a gang rape that occurred in 2002.[18] Mulk's judgement held Jirga, facilitated by four male, responsible for the rape while assisted the main accused but didn't find sufficient evidence to stamp the charge of gang-rape on the accused.[18] He reportedly penned his judgement that "Jirgas cannot be allowed to arbitrarily punish in the form of watta satta marriages and gang-rape to settle disputes without being answerable to the law.[18]

On 2 November 2007, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan submitted an application to the Supreme Court asking that the government be restrained from imposing martial law in Pakistan.[19] Reviewing the application, a seven-panel bench in Supreme Court of Pakistan issued an injunction against the imposition of state emergency on 3 November 2007.[19]

The bench penal was headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.[19] Others included Senior Justices Nasir-ul-Mulk; Fayyaz Ahmad; Bhagwandas; Javaid Iqbal; Shakirullah Jan; Ghulam Rabbani.[19] The injunction was overruled by President Pervez Musharraf and upheld the state emergency imposed on 2 November 2007.[19] He refused to take an oath under PCO 2007 and was ultimately terminated from the Supreme Court.[13] A strong, publicly instigated lawyer's movement which enjoyed support from PML(N) forced President Musharraf to resign in a threat to face impeachment.[16] Mulk was reinstated at the Supreme Court when he took a fresh oath as a judge of the Supreme Court with his seniority intact.[16]

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was to complete his tenure as Prime Minister on 31 May 2018. On 28 May, three days before the Abbasi government would complete its five years term, both Abbasi and leader of opposition Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah agreed on appointing Nasir as the interim Prime Minister of Pakistan.[21] In consequence of their decision, Mulk, in an oath taking ceremony at Presidency Palace, was sworn in as caretaker prime minister of Pakistan.[22]

As caretaker prime minister, his first action was to reshuffle the bureaucracy, the key changes being the appointment of Suhail Aamir as his Principal Secretary and Syed Abu Ahmad Akif as the Cabinet Secretary of Pakistan.[23] During his first few days as prime minister, he instructed the legal team of government to file an appeal against a Lahore High Court decision which has annulled the nomination papers for elections.[24]

• Haziqul Khairi
• Iftikhar Muhammad Choudhary
• Tassaduq Hussain Jillani
• Supreme Court of Pakistan
• Constitution of Pakistan
• Chief Justice of Pakistan

• Supreme Court of Pakistan. "Honoable Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk". Govt. Pakistan. Supreme Court of Pakistan Registrar. Retrieved 29 December 2013.