Malik Mohammad Qayyum

Lawyer, Person

1944 –

92

Who is Malik Mohammad Qayyum?

Malik Mohammad Qayyum, Senior Advocate Supreme Court, is the former Attorney General of Pakistan, who was replaced with Senator Latif Khosa when President Pervez Musharraf resigned on 18 August 2008. He became Attorney General following the resignation of Makhdoom Ali Khan. He is a former Judge of the Lahore High Court which he resigned from after a phone transcript of his was released in which he was alleged to be approached by the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government to fix judgement in a case before him involving Benazir Bhutto. Mr Qayyum denied that the voice in the telephone conversation was his. Agencies have examined the tapes and have expressed their concern that the could have been doctored although no final verdict is available.

He is one of the senior most lawyers of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and has advised the sitting benches of the Higher Judiciary on numerous constitutional issues. He was responsible for conducting the inquiry into Match Fixing which was lauded by the ICC known as the "Qayyum Report".

Malik Qayyum was also recorded as saying that the Pakistani general election, 2008 are going to be rigged. Qayyum March 10, 2008 rejected a plan by opposition lawmakers to reinstate the country's ousted Supreme Court justices within 30 days of parliament's first session, because President Pervez Musharraf's dismissal of the judges was legal under the constitution.

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Born
Dec 18, 1944
Nationality
  • Pakistan
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Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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