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Sindh Muslim Law College

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Type
  
Public

Principal
  
Prof.Khurshid A.Hashmi

Phone
  
+92 21 99212862

Founded
  
28 June 1947

Established
  
June 28, 1947

Campus
  
Urban

Founder
  
Hassanally A. Rahman

Sindh Muslim Law College

Location
  
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Affiliations
  
University of Karachi, Pakistan Bar Council

Address
  
Dr Ziauddin Ahmed Rd, Karachi, Pakistan

Motto
  
"Establish weight with justice and fall not short in the balance"

Notable alumni
  
Wajihuddin Ahmed, Farooq Naek, Ghous Ali Shah, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Fakhruddin G Ebrahim

Similar
  
University of Karachi, D J Sindh Government Science, Islamia Science College, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Ins, Government College of Commerc

The Sindh Muslim Government Law College (Urdu: سنده مسلم گورنمنٹس لا کالج) or S. M. Law College (Urdu: ایس ایم لاء کالج) is located on Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The college was established by its first Principal Hassanally A. Rahman, a leading Advocate of Sindh on the June 28, 1947 and was affiliated to the University of Sindh. It started functioning at Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam. After the closure of Shahani Law College, the college shifted to its present building in 1948 and is affiliated with the University of Karachi.

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Library

S M Law College has one of the oldest Law Library in Pakistan.The spacious and magnificent College Library is an important resource centre, primarily intended to provide undergraduate and postgraduate readers with the books they need for their studies, as well as having a valuable and ever increasing collection of legal works. The Library holds over 50,000 volumes, the core of which is a comprehensive range of legal materials for the practitioner and law student.

Former faculty

  • Barrister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
  • Present Principal

  • Prof. Muhammad Humayoon
  • Degree Programs Offered

  • B.A LLB(Honours)
  • LLB
  • LLM
  • Alumni

    Chief Justices of Pakistan:

  • Syed Sajjad Ali Shah
  • Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui
  • Supreme Court of Pakistan Judges:

  • Tufail Ali Abdul Rehman
  • Wajihuddin Ahmed
  • Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan Judges:

  • Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan - Chief Justice
  • Haziq-ul-Khairi – Chief Justice
  • Sindh High Court Judges:

  • Majida Rizvi
  • Syed Ghous Ali Shah
  • Zafar Hussain Mirza
  • Judges of other High Courts of Pakistan:

  • Mir Hazar Khan Khoso; (student), Judge, High Court of Baluchistan, caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan
  • Other notable persons:

  • Makhdoom Ali Khan – Senior Advocate Supreme Court (Former attorney general of Pakistan and chairman Pakistan Bar Council)
  • Syed Qaim Ali Shah – Chief Minister of Sindh
  • Rana Muhammad Akram Khan, former Chairman Punjab Bar Council.
  • Ghous Ali Shah – former Chief Minister of Sindh, former Defence Minister of Pakistan, former Federal Education Minister
  • Shahida Jamil – former Federal Minister for Women Development, former Minister for Law, Human Rights, Social Welfare and Environment
  • Naimatullah Khan – former mayor of Karachi
  • Farooq H. Naik – Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, former Federal Minister for Law and Human Rights
  • Farman Fatehpuri – eminent scholar of Urdu language and literature
  • Khalid Ali Z. Qazi – former Education Minister Sind, former Addl.Advocate General Sind
  • Rasul Bux Palejo – senior politician
  • References

    Sindh Muslim Law College Wikipedia


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