Chief Justice of Pakistan

Chief Justice of Pakistan منصف اعظم پاکستان‎ – Mansaf-e-Āzam
Incumbent Gulzar Ahmed since 21 December 2019
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Style	The Honorable (formal) Your Honor (within court) Mr. Chief Justice (informal)
Status	Chief justice
Seat	Supreme Court of Pakistan Building, Islamabad, and Lahore
Nominator	Prime Minister of Pakistan
Appointer	President of Pakistan
Term length	Variable Until the age of 65
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Pakistan
Formation	27 June 1949 (75 years ago) (1949-06-27)
First holder	Abdul Rashid (as Federal Chief Justice)

The Chief Justice of Pakistan heads the Supreme Court of Pakistan. These are the names of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (known as the Federal Court until 1960).

List

Number	Name	Period of office		Length of term (years, days)	Bar	Appointed by
1	Sir Mian Abdul Rashid	27 June 1949	29 June 1954	5 years, 0 days	Lahore High Court	Government of India Act 1935
2	Muhammad Munir	29 June 1954	2 May 1960	5 years, 308 days	Lahore High Court	Malik Ghulam Muhammad
3	Muhammad Shahabuddin^†	3 May 1960	12 May 1960	9 days	Madras High Court	Ayub Khan
4	A.R. Cornelius	13 May 1960	29 February 1968	7 years, 292 days	Lahore High Court
5	S.A. Rahman	1 March 1968	3 June 1968	94 days	Lahore High Court
6	Fazal Akbar	4 June 1968	17 November 1968	166 days	East Pakistan High Court
7	Hamoodur Rahman^†	18 November 1968	31 October 1975	6 years, 347 days	Calcutta High Court
8	Yaqub Ali	1 November 1975	22 September 1977	1 year, 325 days	Lahore High Court	Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry
9	S. Anwarul Haq	23 September 1977	25 March 1981	3 years, 183 days	Lahore High Court
10	Mohammad Haleem	23 March 1981	31 December 1989	8 years, 283 days	Sindh High Court	Zia-ul-Haq
11	Afzal Zullah	1 January 1990	18 April 1993	3 years, 107 days	Lahore High Court	Ghulam Ishaq Khan
12	Nasim Hasan Shah	17 April 1993	14 April 1994	362 days	Lahore High Court
A*	Saad Saud Jan	15 April 1994	4 June 1994	50 days	Lahore High Court	Farooq Leghari
13	Sajjad Ali Shah	5 June 1994	2 December 1997	3 years, 180 days	Sindh High Court
14	Ajmal Mian	27 December 1997	30 June 1999	1 year, 185 days	Sindh High Court	Wasim Sajjad
15	Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui	1 July 1999	26 January 2000	209 days	Sindh High Court	Rafiq Tarar
16	Irshad Hasan Khan	26 January 2000	6 January 2002	1 year, 345 days	Lahore High Court
17	Bashir Jehangiri	7 January 2002	31 January 2002	24 days	Peshawar High Court	Pervez Musharraf
18	Sheikh Riaz Ahmad	1 February 2002	31 December 2003	1 year, 333 days	Lahore High Court
19	Nazim Hussain Siddiqui	31 December 2003	29 June 2005	1 year, 180 days	Sindh High Court
20	Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (1st)	29 June 2005	9 March 2007	1 year, 253 days	Balochistan High Court
A	Javaid Iqbal	9 March 2007	24 March 2007	15 days	Balochistan High Court
A	Rana Bhagwandas	25 March 2007	20 July 2007	87 days	Sindh High Court
20	Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (2nd)	20 July 2007	3 November 2007	136 days	Balochistan High Court
21	A. H. Dogar	3 November 2007	21 March 2009	1 year, 138 days	Sindh High Court
20	Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (3rd)	21 March 2009	11 December 2013	4 years, 265 days	Balochistan High Court	Asif Ali Zardari
20	Tassaduq Hussain Jillani	12 December 2013	6 July 2014	176 days	Lahore High Court	Mamnoon Hussain
22	Nasir-ul-Mulk	7 July 2014	16 August 2015	1 year, 70 days	Peshawar High Court
23	Jawwad S. Khawaja	17 August 2015	9 September 2015	23 days	Lahore High Court
24	Anwar Zaheer Jamali	10 September 2015	30 December 2016	1 year, 111 days	Sindh High Court
25	Mian Saqib Nisar	31 December 2016	17 January 2019	2 years, 17 days	Lahore High Court
26	Asif Saeed Khan Khosa	18 January 2019	20 December 2019	336 days	Lahore High Court	Arif Alvi[1][2][3]
27	Gulzar Ahmed	21 December 2019		5 years, 95 days	Sindh High Court

• A Acting
• ± Recess appointment, later rejected by the Supreme Judicial Council. All decisions voided due to illegality of appointment.
• † Died in office

References

1. "Justice Asif Saeed Khosa appointed new Chief Justice of Pakistan". The News. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
2. Reporter, The Newspaper's Staff (2019-01-03). "Alvi approves Justice Khosa's appointment as next CJP". Dawn. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
3. Tribune.com.pk (2019-12-04). "Justice Gulzar to be sworn in as 27th chief justice of Pakistan on Dec 21". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 2019-12-04.