Shahida Nighat Jamil (born 30 January 1944 as Shahida Nighat Sulaiman) is a Pakistani lawyer and politician who served as the Law Minister of Pakistan.
Prior to that she graduated from Sindh Muslim Law College and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and English literature from Karachi University through St. Joseph's College.
She is married to Chaudhry Mohammad Jamil (a senior advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and former vice-president of the Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association).
She has a firm grip on human rights and constitutional laws of the world.
Articles published by her include Independence of the Judiciary,[1] International Humanitarian Law, The Daily News in 1992, The Legacy of Negativism, The Leader in 1995, In which the name of Allah is commemorated – Al-Quran, The Nation in 1997, and The Armed Forces and the Pakistan Movement, The Dawn in 1997.