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Anwar Mansoor appointed attorney general once again

ISLAMABAD: The notification of the appointment of a new attorney general (AG) was issued that stipulated Mr. Anwar Mansoor Khan’s hiring for the coveted post.

Mr. Anwar will replace Khalid Jawed as the top law officer of the federal government.

This is the second time that Anwar Mansoor will serve as the attorney general. Previously, he had been appointed for the post during the Pakistan Peoples Party’s government. Mr. Anwar resigned from the post on April 2, 2010 after reportedly developing differences with the then law minister, Babar Awan.

“Due to non-cooperation and noncooperative attitude of the law minister and the Ministry of Law and Justice since I joined the office and especially since the present crisis, it is not possible for me to continue in that office,” his resignation letter addressed to the president had stated.

The newly appointed AG is the senior counsel from Karachi who had been employed to defend the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf before the Supreme Court in the Imran Khan disqualification case.

In high treason case against Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, Mr. Anwar had served as the defense counsel before a special court.

In 1971, he was commissioned into Pakistan Army as an officer and fought in 1971 war. He became a prisoner of war in 1971 and later resigned from the armed forces in 1973.

 

 

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