Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid
Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid is a man who has devoted himself to legal rights advocacy since the last 16 years after his retirement from the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2000. He has remained the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court from 1992 to 1994 and was elevated to the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1996. He is the Chairman for the Committee for the Welfare of Prisoners, a Sindh Home Department notified committee working to mainstream prison administration and has also been founder and the Dean for the Hamdard School of Law.
Mr. Asadullah Jamil
Mr. Asadullah Jamil is an IT professional with 40 years of experience working in Information Technology Division in various national and international banks. During this period he has worked for banks in Pakistan, USA, and U.A.E. Having spent about 17 years with a large international bank based in UK he was directly involved in designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining online real time system operating in 74 countries worldwide.
Justice Arif Hussain Khilji
Justice Arif Hussain Khilji was elevated as a Judge of the High Court of Sindh in 2001. In 2007, he refused to take oath under the Provisional Constitution Order. In 2009 he was elevated as judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and retired in 2014. He was appointed as ad-hoc judge for the Supreme Court in 2015 for one year. In 2017 he was appointed as the Director General of the Sindh Judicial Academy.
Dr. Habiba Hasan
Dr. Habiba Hassan is a Pediatrician by profession but is both an educationist and a human rights activist. Currently she is a senior member of the faculty at Jinnah Medical and Dental College, Karachi. She has devoted more than forty years of her life to her professional work as a doctor as well as to improve the lives of women and children in Pakistan. She has pioneered many projects and has been the first Pakistani to head Amnesty International representing it at various global forums including at the United Nations.
Barrister Furkan Ali
Barrister Furkan Ali is a Partner at the LMA Ebrahim Hosain. He is member of Lincoln’s Inn, the Sindh Bar Council and the Karachi Bar Association and is enrolled as an Advocate of the High Court of Sindh.Mr. Furkan Ali has successfully acted as the counsel for multinational corporations as well as local companies in Pakistan. The internationally renowned Legal 500 recommends Mr. Furkan Ali for his advisory work in the corporate sector and for contentious work in relation to insurance and regulatory disputes. Mr. Furkan Ali served as full time consultant to the Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan in 2013 and has also been engaged by the Hague Institute for Global Justice.
Justice Muhammad Ather Saeed
Mr, Muhammad Ather Saeed joined his father late Syed Saiduddin in 1973 as tax associate. He was enrolled as an advocate in May 1975 and Advocate of the High Court in May 1981. In 1981 he took over the firm and practiced tax laws and corporate laws from original side up to the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
In October 2005, he was elevated as a Judge of the Honorable High Court of Sindh and served with distinction in this Court and headed the Tax Bench of this Court for almost four years. In 2011 he was elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and retired from this Court in September 2014. After his retirement he re-joined Saiduddin & Co., as a partner. He has authored a number of land mark judgments not only in tax matters but in the field of banking, criminal law, intellectual property, arbitration, service law and almost all branches of law. Presently he is involved in number of arbitration proceedings and rendering opinion and advices on tax and other branches of law.
Mr. Muhammad Ather Saeed remained a prolific speaker on tax and corporate matters on various forums and discussions on various TV channels. During this period he served as President of the Income Tax Bar Association for 3 terms and Karachi Gymkhana for 2 terms.
Ms. Rabiya Javeri
Ms Rabiya Javeri Agha has remained one of the senior most female officers of the Pakistan Administrative Service, Government of Pakistan. She is a graduate in Politics and Literature from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts USA who entered the civil service in 1986. Ms Agha has served the Government in several capacities. In her judicial assignments she was both ‘first class’ and juvenile magistrate. She has worked as Director General, Federal Ombudsman, Secretary Local Government Board, and Financial Advisor to the Mayor and City of Karachi from 1998 to 2000. As Secretary Women’s Development Department, she was instrumental in initiating free legal aid facilities for indigent women and for the setup of women’s shelters throughout Sindh. Prior to this, Ms Rabiya also served as Secretary, Energy, Secretary Tourism, and Special Secretary to the Governor of Sindh.
Prior to her posting in the Human Rights Division, Rabiya Javeri Agha was Secretary of the Trade Development Authority (TDAP), responsible for trade marketing & facilitation as well as trade policy formulation. At TDAP, she was instrumental in framing TDAP HR & Financial Rules after a lapse of 9 years. Ms Agha also undertook a complete restructure of TDAP offices and developed strong national brands such as “Aalishan Pakistan’ and “TEXPO Pakistan’. She is recipient of FPCCI gold medal conferred by the Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr. Nawaz Sharif in acknowledgement of her organization’s outstanding performance in EXPO Pakistan.
Before joining the civil service, she worked as a full-time journalist with the Dawn Group of Newspapers and has published over 300 articles on social and cultural issues. She has attended several courses in Management and Public policy, as well as courses on Conservation and Sustainable Tourism. She is a certified mediator from CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution), UK. At present she serves as the Chairperson of the National Commission on Human Rights.
Dr. Samia K. Babar
Samia Babar has twenty three years of experience in the Public Relations sector. Her area of expertise has been in the health sector where she has developed and implemented awareness programs for Breast Cancer Awareness, Asthma and its management, Diabetes management, Childhood diseases and vaccination, Cervical Cancer Prevention and Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Awareness along with leading pharmaceutical companies. A successful two years campaign by Tetrapak was also conducted by her in the schools of Karachi.
She along with her team developed and implemented an Intellectual Property Rights / Anti-Piracy campaign for Oxford University Press. The campaign won the London Book Fair International Book Industry Award. And it was named as a finalist at the PR News’ Nonprofit PR Awards. She is responsible for all day-to-day management decisions and for implementing the Company’s long and short term plans, supervising and coordination of all PR related concerns of the clients.
She has previously worked with UNICEF and USAID in awareness projects in low-income areas. A campaign Students Movement against Childhood Diseases (SMACD) designed for UNICEF and implemented by MPL won the IPRA Golden World Award 2017 as well as the UN Sustainable Development Goals Award 2017.
Mr. Adnan Javed
Mr. Adnan Javed is a Director at Fleuret Pakistan, a group which has been providing cutting edge solutions for the Pakistan Defence Markets since 1976. Mr. Adnan’s specialty lies in the realms of indenting with further specializations in risk mitigation, market analysis , research , due diligence and regulatory compliance. He has over a decade of experience in the retail banking sector having worked as Resident Vice President at Faysal Bank Ltd and being associated with Dubai Islamic Bank. Mr. Adnan completed his education in business administration from the University of Kent at Canterbury in the U.K.