Muhammad Bilal Khan
| Muhammad Bilal Khan محمد بلال خان |
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| 2nd Chief Justice Islamabad High Court | |
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In office March 7, 2009 – July 31, 2009 |
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| Nominated by | Asif Ali Zardari |
| Preceded by | Sardar Muhammad Aslam |
| Succeeded by | none (High Court dissolved) |
| Justice Lahore High Court | |
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In office September 3, 2003 – Present ( Between March 7, 2009 - July 31, 2009 was at now dissolved IHC) |
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| Nominated by | Pervez Musharaf |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 12, 1949 |
| Nationality |
 Pakistani
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Muhammad Bilal Khan (Urdu: محمد بلال خان) was a Justice in the Lahore High Court in Pakistan.
Khan was a practicing lawyer before the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the High Court. He has also served as an additional Advocate General of Punjab for almost four years.
Khan was appointed to the Lahore High Court on September 3, 2003, and remained in that position until March 6, 2009. On March 7, 2008, President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan appointed him as second Chief Justice of the Islamabad High Court, succeeding Sardar Muhammad Aslam.
On July 31, 2009, a 14-person panel of the Supreme Court of Pakistan declared the creation of the Islamabad High Court to be unconstitutional. Khan returned to be a Justice of Lahore High Court. Since he took oath on PCO 2007 (see below), in contravention of a decision of a 7-person panel of the Supreme Court, he was referred to the Supreme Judicial Council of Pakistan.
On November 3, 2007, the Chief of Staff of the Pakistani Army declared a state of emergency and issued a Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO). A 7-person panel of the Supreme Court issued an order declaring the state of emergency illegal and prohibiting all judges from taking oath on any PCO. Justice Khan was a sitting judge in Lahore High Court and choose to take the oath on November 3, 2007. Others of the 31 judges who took oath with him were Syed Zahid Hussain Bokhari, Nasim Sikandar, Khalid Alvi, Sakhi Hussain Bokhari, Muzammal Khan, Fazal-e-Miran Chohan, Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi, Hamid Ali Shah, Tariq Shamim, Syed Asghar Haider, Hasnaat Ahmad Khan and Lahore High Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry.
On July 31, 2009, a 14-person panel of the Supreme Court held that the PCO of November 3, 2007, was illegal. On November 2, 2007, they referred the cases of all judges who were members of the higher judiciary to the Supreme Judicial Council.
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