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Sheikh Riaz Ahmad

Modern Constitutional and Supreme Court Judges of Asia and Oceania

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Sheikh Riaz Ahmad (born 9 March 1938 in Lahore) was the eighteenth Chief Justice of Pakistan, serving from 1 February 2002 to 31 December 2003 under President Pervez Musharraf, succeeding Bashir Jehangiri and preceding Nazim Hussain Siddiqui. He was called to the bar in 1959 after graduating from Government Islamia College in Lahore, and before becoming Chief Justice he served as Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court in 1997 and as a judge of the Supreme Court from 1997 to 2002, alongside earlier roles in Punjab's provincial government.

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Sheikh Riaz Ahmad was a former Chief Justice of Pakistan from February 1, 2002 to December 31, 2003.
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