Muhammad Haleem (1 January 1925 to 11 August 2006) was the tenth Chief Justice of Pakistan, serving from 1981 to 1989, the longest tenure of any Chief Justice in the country's history. Born in Lucknow, the son of Pakistan's first Advocate General, Barrister Muhammad Wasim, he earned his Bachelor of Laws from Lucknow University in 1946 and later received an honorary doctorate from the University of Karachi. He was among the dissenting minority who voted to acquit former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and as Chief Justice he authored the judgment enabling Pakistan's 1988 general election, a ruling credited with helping restore parliamentary democracy. He died in Karachi of renal failure and was posthumously awarded the Hilal-i-Imtiaz in 1996.
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Muhammad Haleem, LL.D. (HC), HI was a Pakistani jurist who served as the 10th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 1981 to 1989, the longest serving Chief Justice in the history of the judicial branch in Pakistan. He was even endorsed by successive future regimes in Pakistan.
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