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moula bakhsh chandio wasi zafar muhammad mian soomro ahmer hussain bukhari bilal soofi -lrb- acting -rrb- babar awan nayyar sialkot , pakistan 180px pakistan peoples party minister of justice chairman of the senate yousaf raza gillani raja pervez ashraf yousaf raza gillani 03 january 1950 11 april 2012 31 march 2008 12 march 2009 farooq hamid naek senate of poland.jpg farooq naek
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farooq naek

farooq hamid naek -lrb- ; b. 3 january 1950 also spelled farooq h. naik -rrb- , is a pakistani politician and practicing lawyer , serving as the minister of law as well as heading the ministry of justice in the government formerly led by prime minister yousaf raza gillani .
after successfully contesting in the 2008 general elections , naek won the bid for the law ministry , but ascended to chairman of the senate in 2009 .
due to cabinet reshuffle by gillani in 2012 , he was again appointed as law minister of the country .
he is a high-ranking member of the central committee of the pakistan peoples party , and has been a personal lawyer and legal counselor in the legal cases leveled up against benazir bhutto and her spouse asif ali zardari since 1996 .
