Yahya Bakhtiar (Urdu: یحیی بختیار) was a Pakistani lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Pakistan.
[citation needed] Yahya Bakhtiar, as the attorney general, played a key role in framing of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan when he served in Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's cabinet.
[1] His biggest contribution was cross-examination of Mirza Nasir Ahmad, leader of the Ahmadiyya group in front of the parliament committee,[2] who voluntarily appeared to record his party's point of view on the motion to declare Ahmadiyya as non-muslim.
[4] This hanging of a democratically elected prime minister was called a "judicial murder" by many people in Pakistan.
He also represented Nawaz Sharif in the Supreme Court of Pakistan when then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolved the National Assembly by using his powers under Article 58(2)(B).