Yahya Bakhtiar

Yahya Bakhtiar (Urdu: یحیی بختیار‎) was a lawyer and Attorney General of Pakistan. Yahya was born in 1921 at Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. Yahya Bakhtiar died on June 27th, 2003 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.[1]

Education

Yahya Bakhtiar studied at schools in Quetta and Lahore. He studied Law in London and was called to the Bar in the United Kingdom. Yahya Bakhtiar became a member of the All-India Muslim League in 1941.[1]

Career

Yahya Bakhtiar, as the attorney general, played a key role in framing of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan when he served in Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's cabinet.[1] Yahya Bakhtiar became well-known in Pakistan when he defended the former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in court trial against the Zia-ul-Haq government starting on 24 October 1977, but Bhutto was sentenced to death on 18 March 1978 and then actually hanged on 4 April 1979.[2] This hanging of a democratically elected prime minister was called a 'judicial murder' by many people in Pakistan.[3]


Bakhtiar was elected as a member of National Assembly of Pakistan from the Quetta-Pishin constituency in 1977. Yahya was also appointed to the Senate of Pakistan. He was appointed Attorney General of Pakistan again when Benazir Bhutto became Prime Minister in 1988. He also represented Nawaz Sharif in the Supreme Court of Pakistan when then President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolved the National Assembly by using his powers under Article 58(2)(B).[1]

Family and survivors

Yahya Bakhtiar was married to Eva Bakhtiar and had two sons and two daughters. .

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Yahya Bakhtiar dies, Yahya Bakhtiar article on Dawn newspaper, Published 28 June 2003, Retrieved 17 October 2016
  2. ↑ http://whitengreen.com/ziaulhaq-interviewed-in-1977-before-bhuttos-trial--has-histo-1140-video, 'Yahya Bakhtiar to defend Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in court trial', on whitengreen.com website, Retrieved 17 October 2016
  3. ↑ http://nation.com.pk/Politics/12-Apr-2011/ZAB-judicially-murdered-exAG, Yahya Bakhtiar on team of attornies to defend Bhutto in court, The Nation (Pakistan) newspaper, Published 12 April 2011, Retrieved 17 October 2016
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