Ali Nawaz Chowhan

Justice Ali Nawaz Chowhan (died 3 September 2023) was a Pakistani judge. He started as a district judge in 1977 and was judge of the Lahore High Court from 1999 to 2005.^[1] From 2006, he was a judge for the Yugoslavia tribunal for three years. He was a judge for UNESCO in 2010.^[2][3] He was the Chief Justice of Gambia from 6 March 2014 until 12 May 2015.^{[4][5][6][3][7][8]} He was appointed as first chairman of Pakistan's National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR) in 2015.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

Ali Nawaz Chowhan
Died	3 September 2023
Occupation	Pakistani judge

Education

Chowhan studied at the University of Punjab and obtained both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws there. He also obtained degrees in sharia law and law at three different universities: in Pakistan the International Islamic University in Islamabad and in Saudi Arabia the International Islamic University in Medina and the Umm al-Qura University in Mecca. He also followed several other in-depth studies in Pakistan and the United States, such as in the field of civil service law and the fight against drugs.^[14][15]

Death

Chowhan died from a cardiac arrest at Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad, on 3 September 2023. He was laid to rest in Rawalpindi on 4 September.^[16]

References

1. "Examinations of Sections 54 and 167 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1898" (PDF). Examinations of Sections 54 and 167 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1898. Report 49: 153.
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3. "Gambia's Chief Justice dismissed". thepoint.gm. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
4. Khan, Azam (16 February 2016). "Conspiracies being hatched against NCHR: Chowhan". The Express Tribune.
5. "The Gambia to drop English as the national language". country.eiu.com. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
6. Asemota, Sidiq (9 December 2014). "Gambian Judiciary Reforming to Tackle Bureaucratic Shackles - Chief Justice Chowhan Tells Colleagues in Algiers". The Daily Observer.
7. Asad, Malik (2015-05-26). "Profile: From Pindi to Gambia and back". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
8. "Gambian president sacked Supreme Court judges". News24. 2015-06-29. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
9. "Pakistan: Commission probes allegations of police torture in Faisalabad | Asia Pacific Forum". www.asiapacificforum.net. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
10. "Chowhan urges stakeholders to support NCHR efforts". The Frontier Post. 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
11. "Annual Report" (PDF). National Commission for Human Rights, Pakistan. 2017.
12. "National Commission for Human Rights nominates focal persons for collecting data and reporting crimes against journalists". unesco.org.pk. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
13. "Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan Appointed chairman of NCHR -". 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
14. "Ali Nawaz Khan". School of Law. 2017-09-06. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
15. "PRSP". www.prsp.org.pk. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
16. "Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan is no more". 4 September 2023.