Maqbool Baqir will now elect his cabinet.
Justice Retired Maqbool Baqir has taken the oath of office as the designated Caretaker Chief Minister of Sindh. Governor Kamran Tesori administered oath to him, now he will choose the provincial cabinet.
In Sindh, the ruling party Pakistan People’s Party had proposed the name of Justice Maqbool Baqir, the opposition party MQM had agreed on his name after consultation with other parties.
Who is Justice (R) Maqbool Baqir?
Justice retired Maqbool Baqir was born on 1957 in Karachi. He did his LLB from Karachi University, in 2002 he was appointed as Additional Judge in Sindh High Court and became a permanent judge in the following year.
After the retirement of Justice Mushir Alam, he served as Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court, he was among the judges who refused to take oath under General Pervez Musharraf’s interim constitutional order and Justice Iftikhar Muhammad. After Chaudhry’s restoration, he was the last judge to be restored.
In 2013, he was injured in an assassination attempt in Karachi, which was claimed by the militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. Justice Retired Maqbool Baqir was appointed as a judge in the Supreme Court in 2015, when the National Accountability Bureau was cracking down on the central leadership of the People’s Party and the Muslim League during Imran Khan’s regime. declared, in which the Saad Rafiq case is dominant.
When a reference was filed against Justice Faiz Isa Qazi, he stood by him till the end, he also wrote a dissenting note in the full bench judgement. He was also named as the head of the accountability bureau by the Pakistan People’s Party leadership before the caretaker chief minister.
