Babar Awan Politician

Zaheer-ud-din Babar Awan (Urdu: ظہيرالدين بابر اعوان‎; born 27 January 1958; SI), is a Pakistani statesman, lawyer, author, analyst, columnist, and leftist writer. He is currently serving as junior Pakistan Senator from Punjab Province, to which he was elected in 2012.He regularly writes and publishes on left-wing philosophy, and served as Minister of Law and Justice in the cabinet of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. Due to a cabinet reshuffle, he lost his ministerial appointment in favor of Farooq Naik in 2011. He extensively writes political columns in a leading Urdu newspaper, the Daily Jang, in support of social democracy and social justice.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)ظہيرالدين بابر اعوان (Urdu)
Birth dateJanuary 27, 1958
Birth nameZaheer-ud-din Babar Awan
Birth place
Rawalpindi
Religion
Islam
Residence
Islamabad
Education
University of Karachi
Monticello University
University of the Punjab

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Office holder

party
Pakistan Peoples Party
president
prime minister
successor
Manzoor Wattoo

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