Lawmaker, author of Pakistan constitution passes away

Pakistani Lawmaker Abdul Hafeez Pirzada in 1977

Eminent lawyer and former law minister Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, 80, passed away late on Tuesday in a London hospital, a leading Pakistani newspaper, Dawn News reported.

The veteran Supreme Court lawyer was among the prominent figures who had constituted the 1973 Constitution, the one the state of Pakistan still implements today.

Legal expert had received his LLB degree The from one of the top universities, Karachi Karachi: Supplemental information University and later received his LLM degree from Sindh University.  He began his legal career in the Sindh High Court.

After being elected as a Member of National Assembly for the first time in 1970, he was the country’s first minister for culture and was federal law minister when the Constitution of 1973 was approved.

Later, Abdul Hafeez Pirzada became the first federal inter-provincial coordination minister after the enforcement of 1973 constitution. In 1977, he had presented the budget as finance minister of the PPP government.

Pirzada was also one of the founding members of Pakistan People’s Party and was considered as a close friend of former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

He is reportedly survived by two sons, two daughters and a wife.