Chief Justice of Pakistan

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|class="unsortable"|Name|class="unsortable" colspan="2"|Period of office|Length of term (years, days)|Bar|Appointed by|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Sir Mian Abdul Rashid||||Lahore High Court|rowspan=1 align=center|Government of India Act 1935|
|2|Muhammad Munir||||Lahore High Court|rowspan=1 align=center|Malik Ghulam Muhammad|
|3|Muhammad Shahabuddin<sup></sup>||||Madras High Court|rowspan=5 align=center|Ayub Khan|
|4|A.R. Cornelius||||Lahore High Court|||
|5|S.A. Rahman||||Lahore High Court|||
|6|Fazal Akbar||||East Pakistan High Court|||
|7|Hamoodur Rahman<sup></sup>||||Calcutta High Court|||
|8|Yaqub Ali||||Lahore High Court|rowspan=2 align=center|Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry|
|9|S. Anwarul Haq||||Lahore High Court|||
|10|Mohammad Haleem||||Sindh High Court|rowspan=1 align=center|Zia-ul-Haq|
|11|Afzal Zullah||||Lahore High Court|rowspan=2 align=center|Ghulam Ishaq Khan|
|12|Nasim Hasan Shah||||Lahore High Court|||
||Saad Saud Jan||||Lahore High Court|rowspan=2 align=center|Farooq Leghari|
|13|Sajjad Ali Shah||||Sindh High Court|||
|14|Ajmal Mian||||Sindh High Court|rowspan=1 align=center|Wasim Sajjad|
|15|Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui||||Sindh High Court|rowspan=2 align=center|Rafiq Tarar|
|16|Irshad Hasan Khan||||Lahore High Court|||
|17|Bashir Jehangiri||||Peshawar High Court|rowspan=8 align=center|Pervez Musharraf|
|18|Sheikh Riaz Ahmad||||Lahore High Court|||
|19|Nazim Hussain Siddiqui||||Sindh High Court|||
|20|Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry <small>(1st)</small>||||Balochistan High Court|||
||Javaid Iqbal||||Balochistan High Court|||
||Rana Bhagwandas||||Sindh High Court|||
|20|Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry <small>(2nd)</small>||||Balochistan High Court|||
|21|A. H. Dogar||||Sindh High Court|||
|20|Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry <small>(3rd)</small>||||Balochistan High Court|rowspan=1 align=center|Asif Ali Zardari|
|20|Tassaduq Hussain Jillani||||Lahore High Court|rowspan=5 align=center|Mamnoon Hussain|
|22|Nasir-ul-Mulk||||Peshawar High Court|||
|23|Jawwad S. Khawaja||||Lahore High Court|||
|24|Anwar Zaheer Jamali||||Sindh High Court|||
|25|Mian Saqib Nisar||||Lahore High Court|||
|26|Asif Saeed Khan Khosa||||Lahore High Court|rowspan=2 align=center|Arif Alvi|
|27|Gulzar Ahmed||||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_

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Chief Justice of Pakistan
- **native name**: – _Mansaf-e-Āzam_
- **insignia**: Emblem of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.svg
- **incumbent**: Gulzar Ahmed
- **incumbentsince**: 21 December 2019
- **status**: Chief justice
- **department**: Supreme Court of Pakistan
- **style**: The Honorable

Judge, Your Honor

Mr. Chief Justice

- **seat**: Supreme Court of Pakistan Building, Islamabad, and
Lahore
- **nominator**: Prime Minister of Pakistan
- **appointer**: President of Pakistan
- **termlength**: Variable <small>Until the age of 65</small>
- **constituting instrument**: Constitution of Pakistan
- **first**: Abdul Rashid (judge), Abdul Rashid