Farooq Naek Politician
Farooq Hamid Naek (Urdu: فاروق حمید نائیک ; also spelled Farooq H. Naik), 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.
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