Sheikh Anwarul Haq
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The Honourable Sheikh Anwarul Haq شیخ انوار الحق |
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Chief Justice Sheikh Anwarul Haq (1917–1995)
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| Chief Justice of Pakistan | |
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In office 23 September 1977 – 25 March 1981 |
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| Nominated by | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
| Appointed by | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry |
| Preceded by | Yaqub Ali |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad Haleem |
| Acting President of Pakistan | |
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In office 20 April 1978 – 7 May 1978 |
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| Preceded by |
Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry (29 November 1963–12 June 1965) |
| Succeeded by |
Wasim Sajjad (18 July 1993–14 November 1993) |
| Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan | |
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In office 16 October 1972 – 23 September 1977 |
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| Nominated by | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto |
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Sheikh Anwarul Haq 11 May 1917 Jullundur, British Indian Empire (now India) |
| Died | 3 March 1995 (aged 77) Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Citizenship |
 British subject (1917–1947) Pakistan (1947-1995)
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| Alma mater |
Kanpur University Punjab University |
| Profession | Jurist |
Chief Justice Sheikh Anwarul Haq (Urdu: شیخ انوار الحق ; 11 May 1917 – 3 March 1995), was a Pakistani jurist and an academic who served as the Chief Justice of Pakistan from 23 September 1977 until resigning on 25 March 1981.
Educated as an economist at the Kanpur University and the Punjab University in Lahore, he served as a civil servant of the Indian Civil Service as an appointee to lead the municipal governance in the British India in 1944. He continued serving in the civil service after the independence of Pakistan as a result of partition of British India in 1947 and subsequently elevated as a judge in the Sindh High Court in 1957.
In 1962, he was nominated to be served in the Supreme Court and later appointed as Chief Justice of Lahore High Court in 1970 before his reappointment as a Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1971. He 1972, he earned public and international notability when he co-chaired the War Enquiry Commission with Chief Justice Hamoodur Rahman to investigate the economic and military collapse of Pakistan in a war against India in 1971 that led to the succession of East Pakistan as Bangladesh.
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