Babar Awan
Zaheer-ud-din Babar Awan (Urdu: ظہیر الدین بابر اعوان; born 27 January 1952; SI), is a Pakistani politician, senior lawyer, author, analyst, columnist, and leftist writer who served as Adviser to Prime Minister for Parliamentary Affairs from April 2020 to 10 April 2022, and before that as the Federal Law Minister in the cabinet of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. He also served as a junior Pakistani Senator of Punjab Province from 2012 to 2017. Later he joined PTI to serve as Member Executive Council of PTI.
Babar Awan | |
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| ظہیر الدین بابر اعوان | |
| Advisor to Prime Minister for Parliamentary Affairs (Federal Minister) | |
| In office 6 April 2020 – 10 April 2022 | |
| President | Arif Alvi |
| Prime Minister | Imran Khan |
| Preceded by | Azam Khan Swati |
| In office 20 August 2018 – 4 September 2018 | |
| President | Arif Alvi |
| Prime Minister | Imran Khan |
| Succeeded by | Ijaz Ahmed Shah |
| Member of the Senate of Pakistan (Senator) | |
| In office 12 March 2012 – 17 July 2017 | |
| Constituency | Punjab, Pakistan |
| In office 22 February 2006 – 28 February 2012 | |
| Constituency | Punjab, Pakistan |
| Vice President of Pakistan Peoples Party | |
| In office 29 December 2011 – 2 May 2012 | |
| Chairman | Bilawal Bhutto Zardari |
| Co-Chairman | Asif Ali Zardari |
| Preceded by | Shah Mahmood Qureshi |
| Succeeded by | Manzoor Wattoo |
| Federal Minister for Law and Justice | |
| In office 3 November 2008 – 12 April 2011 | |
| President | Asif Ali Zardari |
| Prime Minister | Yusuf Raza Gillani |
| Preceded by | Farooq H. Naek |
| Succeeded by | Moula Bakhsh Chandio |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Zaheer-ud-din Babar Awan 27 January 1952 Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Citizenship | Pakistani |
| Political party | PTI (2017-present) |
| Other political affiliations | PPP (1997-2017) |
| Relations | Ghulam Farooq Awan (brother) Malik Shakeel Awan (nephew) |
| Residence | Islamabad |
| Alma mater | University of Punjab Karachi University Monticello University |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Awards | Sitara-e-Imtiaz (2012) |
He regularly writes and publishes on left-wing philosophy. He extensively writes political columns in a leading Urdu newspaper, the Daily Jang, in support of social democracy and social justice.
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