Athar Minallah

Athar Minallah (Urdu: اطہر من اللہ; born 30 December 1961) is a Pakistani lawyer, and jurist who is serving as a judge of Supreme Court of Pakistan since 11 November 2022.

[citation needed] His father Nasrum Minallah was a senior civil servant, who served as the Chief Secretary of Balochistan from October 1976 to July 1977, and was removed soon after the imposition of the 1977 Martial Law because of his opposition to Pakistan Army's role in the matters of provincial government.

[9] In 2002 he took charge as the Minister of Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Human Rights, Local Government, and Rural Development in the then NWFP Provincial Government of Governor Lt. General Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah which was formed under the Governor's Rule following the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état.

[9] He was third on the seniority list in the Islamabad High Court till the sacking of Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, the former senior puisne judge who was removed on the recommendation of Supreme Judicial Council that found him guilty of misconduct over claims of manipulation of judicial proceedings against the Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's intelligence agency.

[2] The appointment of Justice Athar Minallah to the Supreme Court was approved by the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) on 24 October 2022.