Khalid Muhammad Ishaq Senior Advocate Supreme Court, is a Pakistani jurist and scholar of law, Islamic studies and literature.
His maternal grandfather was Maulvi Ziauddin Ahmed who was the first Indian to serve as DIG[clarification needed] of Bombay Sind Presidency.
His private library, until 1999, contained 175,000 volumes, making him the owner of one of the biggest collection of books in Pakistan.
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) has dedicated the first floor of its library as the "Khalid Ishaq Wing" in recognition of the massive donation of books.
These meetings, which were held for almost 40 years and terminated only a few weeks before his death, were a kind of intellectual forum where the current issues were discussed freely.
Among the regular participants were the journalists, Salahuddin, the editor of weekly Takbir, Major Ibn ul-Hasan, a columnist of that time and Nusrat Mirza, educators Abd ul-Qadeer Saleem, Molana Amir Usmani and Molan Tasin and businessmen Riaz Shafi, and Saeed Ahmad of Anchor Shipping.
Iqbal Shah DSP (r), a renowned Sind police officer unfairly[citation needed] retired in Ayub Khan's martial law who was considered by Ishaq to be an expert in Allama Iqbal' s writings, attended these meetings as well.