Farooq Naek

Farooq Hamid Naek (Urdu: فاروق حمید نائیک ; born 1 July 1947) also spelled Farooq H. Naik, is a Pakistani politician and lawyer, who served as the Chairman Senate, Minister of Law as well as headed the Ministry of Justice in the government led by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.

[2] 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.

He resigned from the judicial service after serving as civil judge for two years and became an active member of the PPP in the mid-1970s.

[4] Naek was arrested in 1995, after leading a demonstration against the dictatorial rule of General Zia Ul Haq.

[5] Although Naek was associated with the PPP for three decades, he only shot to prominence when he fought the corruption and criminal cases against Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari during Pervez Musharraf's rule in and out of Pakistan.