{"id":10,"date":"2018-09-16T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-08-24T20:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T20:06:14","slug":"sindh-gov-appoints-first-christian-advocate-general-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/lawyersmovement\/sindh-gov-appoints-first-christian-advocate-general-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sindh gov. appoints first Christian Advocate General in Pakistan."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/christianattorneygeneral.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img  decoding=\"async\"  border=\"0\"  data-original-height=\"400\"  data-original-width=\"700\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/christianattorneygeneral.jpg\" ><\/a><\/div>\n<p>KARACHI: The Sindh Government has made the history by appointing another chief law officer of the province from the minority Christian community, the first one was M L Shahani.<\/p>\n<p>Salman Talibuddin Advocate was appointed as Advocate General Sindh on the terms and conditions as admissible under the rules with immediate effect, says an official notification issued here on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Talibuddin is currently serving as an additional attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>The post fell vacant in June when then advocate general Zameer Ghumro resigned following chief justice&#8217;s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Senior PPP leader Sherry Rehman credited her party for empowering the minorities according to Quaid&#8217;s vision.<\/p>\n<p>Wajid Ali Syed adds:<\/p>\n<p>M L Shahani was the first from the Christian community to be appointed as the Advocate General Sindh; and was later appointed as a judge at the Sindh High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Shahani obtained his L.L.B. in 1973 from the University of Sindh and had a very successful law practice in Karachi, Sindh Province, when, in 1996, he was appointed Advocate General for the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KARACHI: The Sindh Government has made the history by appointing another chief law officer of the province from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lawyersmovement","8":"cs-entry","9":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}