Syed Afzal Haider

Syed Afzal Haider (1930 – 2024) was a Pakistani legal figure who was the caretaker Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs minister.

In 1987 he conducted the “Baba Farid International Conference", to commemorate the work of the famous South Asian Sufi saint, Fariduddin Ganjshakar.

Haider authored several English and Urdu publications on Imam Khomeini, the Bhutto Trial, the Shariat Bill, Rehmatu-ul-Lil Alameen, F.I.R and many more.

On March 26, 2008, Syed Afzal Haider, who was law minister in the caretaker cabinet, took oath as judge of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan.

In 2010, he gave an infamous verdict in Mian Abdur Razzaq Aamir v. Federal Government,[2] holding sections of the Women's Protection Act of 2006 unconstitutional.