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India-Pakistan
Chief Justice Chaudry retires - welcome Chief Justice Sharif
2009-04-14
Justice Sharif was born on 9th December 1948 in Lahore. He belongs to a well-established and well-known religious family (Khawaja Family). His did his masters in Political Science and got a degree in LLB too. He also passed Diplomas in Taxation Law and Labour Law.
LAHORE - Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif has become the 38th Chief Justice of the 125 years old Lahore High Court (LHC0 and is likely to take oath of his office today. Justice Sharif is the senior most judge of the LHC and had he not been sacked through the PCO on November 3,2007, he would have become the CJ on January 1st of the last year in the light of Al-Jihad Trust Case 1996 (popularly known as the Judges Case) after the retirement of then Chief Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry. He would retire on December 8, 2010 at the age of 62.

Justice Sharif was restored on March 17 along with Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and others, but he was not made the CJ immediately and he started judicial work as a judge under the outgoing CJ Justice Syed Zahid Hussain, now elevated to the Supreme Court. CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry during his speeches to different bars while he was sacked always called Justice Sharif as the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court.

Justice Sharif remained staunch supporter of the lawyersÂ’ movement and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and never accepted the governmentÂ’s offers to take fresh oath as some of his deposed colleagues did last year.

Justice Sharif was born on 9th December 1948 in Lahore. He belongs to a well-established and well-known religious family (Khawaja Family). His did his masters in Political Science and got a degree in LLB too. He also passed Diplomas in Taxation Law and Labour Law.
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