Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid, received his B.A Honors in Law in 1956 from the Cambridge University in U.K. He was called to the Bar in 1956 from Middle Temple in London, U.K. He completed his M.A in 1960 from Cambridge University, U.K. He practiced law for over 20 years in the High Court and Supreme Court of Pakistan and was elevated as a judge of the Sindh High Court on 17th May 1980. He went on to becoming the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court from 1992-1994; a time during which he heard a number of public interest petitions and authored leading judgments in the realm of fundamental freedoms. He was elevated to the Supreme Court in 1996. Justice Nasir Zahid had also lead the the seminal Commission of Inquiry for Women from Sept. 1996 to Aug. 1997 .During his tenure as a Judge of the Supreme Court he was in charge of the court’s computerization project and also headed the Federal Judicial Academy in Islamabad from 1999 – 2000. He ceased to hold office in 2000 after refusing to take fresh oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO), on January 26, 2000. After retirement, he established the Hamdard School of Law in Karachi which provided a full time three-year law degree program based on the semester system. In 2004, he was appointed as the Chairperson for the Committee for the Welfare of Prisoners by the Government of Sindh and has since then continued to scale and lead the institutionalization of the Legal Aid Office project, which is a public private partnership and works for the welfare of prisoners in Sindh providing legal aid and representation across 23 prisons in the Province. Justice Zahid has also spearheaded a number of initiatives related to the development of Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms in the country and has worked on constitutional reform committees for other countries.