Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday (Punjabi, Urdu: خلیل الرحمان رمدے) is a Pakistani philanthropist and former jurist who served as senior judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 2002 to 2010.
[1] After receiving his early education in different schools of the Punjab, Ramday matriculated from Central Model School, Lahore, and joined Government College, Lahore from where he migrated to Gordon College, Rawalpindi, on account of his father's posting in the Federal Ministry of Law.
He was declared the best English debater of 1968 after winning the "Krishan Kishore Grover Goodwill Gold Medal Declamation Contest".
On 3 November 2007, Chief of the Army declared emergency and issued a Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO).
A seven panel Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry declared the emergency as illegal.
During the unrest that followed the imposition of emergency, he was placed under house arrest, making his grandson the youngest political prisoner in Pakistan's history.
Ramday was restored to the bench of Supreme Court on 17 March 2009 as a result of historic movement in his support that lasted for two years.
On the same topic, he addressed the Rotary International South Asia Goodwill Summit, 2007 held at Delhi in February 2007.
Lord Newberger who has served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has expressed his intent to inaugurate Ramday's discourse.
In an act of national service, with a push from Ramday, he gave up a lucrative salary of over Rs 300 million along with his Dutch nationality to serve as Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue after a rich banking career where he remained CEO of JP Morgan Asia Pacific and President and CEO of Habib Bank Limited.
Muhammad Raza Farooq died at a young age from a fatal heart attack in his Marriott hotel room in Islamabad, on Friday, 14 May 2010.
Asad-ur-Rehman has been contesting elections for National Assembly as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League since 1988 and also served as a federal minister.