Mian Muhibullah Kakakhel

Mian Muhibullah Kakakhel
Mian Muhibullah Kakakhel Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan
Born	3 June 1958 (1958-06-03) (age 59) Charsadda, Tangi. A village near Peshawar
Other names	Mian Sahab
Occupation	Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan
Website	www.kakakhellaw.com

Mian Muhibullah Kakakhel is the youngest practising Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court (equivalent to Queen's Counsel in England and Wales) in the history of Pakistan and the former candidate for the presidency of Pakistan.

During the regime of General Zia ul Haq, the President of Pakistan (1977–88), the smuggling, sale and use of heroin was at its highest. The drug addicts were not only increasing but the majority of them were dying because of a lack of treatment and attention from society. Other diseases like hepatitis, HIV-AIDS etc. were also on the increase. Kakakhel formulated a social plan for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts. He launched an organisation called Society for Medical Care and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts (SMARDA). The society was totally funded by Kakakhel. He faced great resistance, enmity and threats from drug purchasers including threats to his life and some actual attempts at his life. The society served its purpose to some extent when some Government hospitals undertook the treatment of drug addicts. SMARDA was dissolved in 1995. A lot of progress has since been made towards this end by some NGOs, thanks to the spade work of Kakakhel.

In 1991, when the Gulf was attacked by the US led forces the people of Iraq suffered heavily, Kakakhel formed an army of volunteers to help Iraqis and to reduce their plight. The militia was given the name of Labaik Force and was totally funded by Kakakhel. The unit was dissolved in 1994.

Kakakhel spent some time in the Pakistan Air Force as a flight lieutenant before starting his law practice, having already completed his LLB from Karachi University so started his own practice in 1985.

In 1992, Kakakhel announced the launching of a political party called Pakistan Aainee Party. He was chosen its founder President with the manifesto of upholding the Constitution, th supremacy of law, independence of judiciary and rule of law. The party faced unbearable challenges from within and outside the country. The party was dissolved after three years. The agencies, establishment, land lords and the ruling junta left no stone unturned to damage Kakakhel.

Kakakhel was the first to challenge the military takeover of the country by General Pervez Musharraf. In the case of ex-chief Minister NWFP Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan Abbassi vide writ petition No.1 of 2000. The coup was challenged before the Peshawar High Court.

Feeling that all the agencies and political parties were helping Musharraf's dictatorial rule and Musharraf was going to be elected unopposed in the forthcoming elections to the office of President of Pakistan, Kakakhel announced his candidature for the post of the President. The candidature was welcomed by almost all the pressure groups including army generals and politicians but then all of a sudden the lawyers' movement started against the removal of the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. The lawyers' movement overshadowed the presidential elections and also the candidature of Kakakhel; hence he withdraw his claim to the presidency of the country in the best interests of the country.