[2] Amongst his cousins are the human rights activists and sisters, Hina Jilani and Asma Jehangir, business leader Iqbal Z. Ahmed, thespian Salima Raza and also activist Nigar Ahmad.
[1] He was a founder member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and its first vice chairperson for Sindh.
[3] During the same year, he gave a landmark judgement regarding monetary compensation to a detenu in a habeas corpus petition.
[3] He was elevated to the Supreme Court during the regime of President Pervez Musharraf but refused to take oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO).
Once a democratic government was restored, he took the oath and served from September 19, 2008, until his death on April 18, 2009.