19 Facts About Zahid Hamid

Zahid Hamid is a Pakistani politician, and lawyer.

Zahid Hamid briefly served as the Minister of Law and Justice in June 2013 before being appointed Minister of Science and Technology from June 2013 to November 2014.

Zahid Hamid again served as Minister for Law and Justice under Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi from August 2017 until he resigned in November 2017.

Zahid Hamid had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to May 2018.

Zahid Hamid was born on 24 October 1947 in Lahore, Punjab, to Zahid Hamid Nawaz, a two-time MNA who served in the Pakistan Army and retired as a Brigadier in 1975 and later served in foreign service tenured as diplomat in various countries.

For higher studies, Zahid Hamid went to the United Kingdom to attend the Cambridge University.

Zahid Hamid graduated with a BA with honours in Philosophy and worked on the post-graduate studies.

Zahid Hamid gained a MA degree where his work contained the fundamentals of philosophy of law.

In 1970, Zahid Hamid passed the CSS exam to join the Central Superior Services where he worked with the provincial government of Punjab but resigned in 1978 from the CSS to start career in politics.

Zahid Hamid set up and managed two industrial units in the food sector from 1978 to 1988.

Zahid Hamid started his career as professional lawyer and eventually becoming a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

In 2013, Zahid Hamid participated in 2013 Pakistani general elections and elected as member of National Assembly from his constituency NA-114.

Zahid Hamid was appointed Law Minister in the Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights, but later he was reassigned to Science ministry.

Zahid Hamid abruptly resigned from the Science ministry after the special court inducted him on a Musharraf treason trial.

On hearing the court's decision, Zahid Hamid tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

In November 2015 he was made Minister of Climate Change and in 2016, Zahid Hamid was given the additional portfolio of the Minister of Law and Justice.

Zahid Hamid had ceased to hold ministerial office in July 2017 when the federal cabinet was disbanded following the disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Panama Papers case decision.

Zahid Hamid was appointed federal Minister of Law and Justice.

Zahid Hamid stepped down from the ministerial office of Minister for Law and Justice in November 2017, following the 2017 Tehreek-e-Labaik protest.