Ashtar Ausaf Ali
| Ashtar Ausaf Ali | |
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| اشتر اوصاف علی | |
| 32nd Attorney-General for Pakistan | |
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Assumed office 29 March 2016 |
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| President | Mamnoon Hussain |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Salman Aslam Butt |
| 27th Chairman of the Pakistan Bar Council | |
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Assumed office 29 March 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Salman Aslam Butt |
| Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Law and Justice | |
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In office 25 February 2015 – 28 March 2016 |
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| President | Mamnoon Hussain |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
| Succeeded by | Zafarullah Khan |
| 29th and 35th Advocate General of Punjab | |
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In office 2 January 2012 – 5 April 2013 |
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| Governor | Latif Khosa |
| Preceded by | Khawaja Haris |
| Succeeded by | Shahid Karim |
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In office 20 November 1998 – 12 October 1999 |
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| Governor | Shahid Hamid |
| Preceded by | Khawaja Muhammad Sharif |
| Succeeded by | Maqbool Elahi Malik |
| Prosecutor General of Punjab | |
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In office 15 September 2011 – 2 January 2012 |
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| Advisor to the Prime Minister on Human Rights | |
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In office 21 December 1997 – 12 October 1999 |
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| Appointed by | Nawaz Sharif |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
19 June 1956 Lahore, Pakistan |
| Alma mater |
Forman Christian College Punjab University George Washington University |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Ashtar Ausaf Ali (born 19 June 1956) is a Pakistani lawyer and the 32nd Attorney-General for Pakistan since 29 March 2016. He also serves as ex-officio Chairman of the Pakistan Bar Council.
Ausaf previously served as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Law and Justice from 2015 to 2016, twice as Advocate General of Punjab from 1998 to 1999 and 2012 to 2013, and as Prosecutor General of the province from 2011 to 2012.
Ashtar Ausaf Ali was born in Lahore, Pakistan, the eldest son of lawyer and diplomat Iftikhar Ali Sheikh. He completed his Bachelor of Arts from Forman Christian College in 1975, and his LLB from Punjab University in 1980, where he also taught as adjunct lecturer for international law from 1984 to 1988. He became a member of the Lahore Bar Association in 1980, and was awarded an MCL from George Washington University, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity.
Ashtar Ausaf Ali came to prominence in the 1990s as a litigator and constitutional lawyer. After President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismissed the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1993, he successfully represented Sharif before the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the dissolution of parliament. The Supreme Court overturned the dismissal, and Sharif was re-elected in 1997. Ausaf was then appointed Advisor to the Prime Minister on human rights. He was appointed Advocate General of Punjab in May 1998, but resigned from his post when General Pervez Musharraf overthrew the Sharif government in a military coup.
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