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Gholam Mujtaba – chair of the Pakistan Policy Institute, a think tank dedicated to improve the US-Pakistan relationship; Lina Khan – legal scholar specializing in US antitrust and competition law, associate professor of law at Columbia Law School, and chair of the Federal Trade Commission
A Pakistan Chapter of the New York State Bar Association's International division was created in 2004 with Malik appointed as chapter chair. Its purpose was to improve legal communications between Pakistan and the United States and to improve cooperation issues between the two countries. [14]
Mowahid Hussain Shah. Mowahid Hussain Shah is an attorney-at-law, author, and policy analyst. His articles are published regularly in English in Nawa-i-Waqt (an Urdu daily). For over a decade, he has been the lead columnist for Pakistan Link, the most subscribed weekly throughout North America for the U.S. Pakistani community.
The Pakistani community in the United States also remits the largest share of any Pakistani diaspora community since 2002/03, surpassing those from Saudi Arabia which from 2000/01 were $309.9 million and increased to $1.25 billion by 2007/08 and during the same period remittances from the United States increased from $73.3 million to $1.72 billion.
This is a list of notable Pakistanis who are practicing or have been practicing as a lawyer in Pakistan Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri; Ahmad Awais Advocate General Punjab; Ahmad Raza Khan Kasuri; Aitzaz Ahsan, barrister of Gray's Inn; Akhtar Aly Kureshy; Akram Sheikh; A. K. Brohi; Ashtar Ausaf Ali; Asif Ali Malik; Asma Jahangir, Senior ASC; Babar Awan ...
Karim Ahmad Khan was born in Edinburgh on 30 March 1970, [9] [10] the son of a British nurse [11] and Pakistani dermatologist. [12] His father was born in Mardān. [12] He has a sister and two brothers, [12] one of whom is former Conservative Party MP and convicted sex offender Imran Ahmad Khan. [13]
Akram Sheikh has been vocal on national and international forums for human rights, independence of judiciary and rule of law. For example, he participated in the 'Lawyers March for Law in Pakistan' on 14 November 2007 (news coverage of this march by US TV channel C-Span Network is shown on their website). [6]
Aafia Siddiqui (also spelled Afiya; [8] Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani neuroscientist [9] and educator who gained international attention following her conviction in the United States and is currently serving an 86-year sentence for attempted murder and other felonies at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in Fort Worth, Texas.