Zaheer-ud-din Babar Awan is the former Federal Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Pakistan. He is a former Vice President of the Pakistan Peoples Party. He is also a senator in Pakistan's upper House of the Parliament, a practicing lawyer and a former member of the Pakistan Peoples Party Central Executive Committee. Awan won the Senate election in 2006 unopposed. He was re-elected to the Senate again in March 2012, but was removed from all senior party posts in May that year.
Political career
Awan was a student leader in his student life. He first joined the PML-Junejo of former Prime Minister Muhammad Khan Junejo. In 1996, he joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). In 1997, Awan contested for the General Elections from Murree from the PPP, and remained unsuccessful. He ran again in the 2002 elections, this time from Islamabad, but was defeated again. In 2004, Benazir Bhutto appointed Awan as the finance secretary of the Pakistan People's Party. In 2006, Awan contested for the Senate election and was elected unopposed. Awan was present during the 19 October attack on Benazir Bhutto in Karachi, and then when Benazir Bhutto was killed in Rawalpindi.
Awan was appointed the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs in November 2008. He was elevated as the Federal Law Minister in December 2009. He resigned along with the rest of the federal cabinet in early 2011, but was brought back less than 48 hours later. He was also given the Ministry of Information Technology. In 2011, he resigned as minister to plead in the Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto murder case.
On 2nd May 2012 Babar Awan was stripped of all his party posts by the Central Executive Committee of the PPP
Witness in Contempt Case
The President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari in a briefing to his close confidants disclosed that he had given a personal guarantee that Babar Awan will appear before the court as a witness in Prime Minister's contempt case. This was later confirmed by Prime Ministers council Aitezaz Ahsan in an interview given to Arshad Sharif for his program KYUN. Aitezaz said Babar's name was given to him by the President and PM both but Babar Awan refused to show up which irked the President.
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