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Ali Ahmed Fazeel was born near Aligarh in UP, India on September 5th, 1922. Son of a district magistrate and political activist of feudal background, he went on to Aligarh University in the late 1930s. Throughout his academic career he had the distinction of standing at top of his class. At Aligarh, he was totored by the eminent Dr. Ziaduddin, namesake of Dr Ziauddin Hospital in Karachi. It was during that period, that the Pakistan movement was gaining momentum, Fazeel became the Secretary-General of All India Muslim League Students Federation. He worked along Liaqat Ali Khan and Jinnah. Pakistan was born in August of 1947, and Fazeel flew to Karachi , Pakistan's first capital city. In 1948 minor riots broke out against the immigrant population from India and the native Sindhis. When Fazeel approached the then Chief Minister of Sindh, Ayub Khuro, in Fazeel's words, Khuro remarked: I will throw you and your Quaid (Jinnah) behind the bars.' THus was a friction developing between the educated intellegnsia which consisted of the founding father sof Pakistan and the feudal lords who were to dominate Pakistan's political landscape from there onwards. Fazeel claimed that he went back and related this to Jinnah. THe Quaid had few words of comfort. He knew too, that the political realities of infact Pakistan were to be different than from that of the recently concluded Pakistan movement. Being a professional lawyer, Ali Ahmed Fazeel set up his law offices, "Fazeel & Co." in Karachi's Jehangir Kothari building. Liaqat Ali Khan , Pakistan's first Prime Minister, offered to send him to Sri Lanka as his Diplomatic Attache, but Fazeel rejected his offer, demanding to take up no job beneath that of an Ambassador. Mr A K Brohi, 20 years senior to Fazeel was appointed Ambassador. Liaqat Ali Khan, was assasinated in 1951 in what Fazeel claimed a conspiracy. He quit active politics after that. Fazeel made friends with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, when both were part-time lecturers at Sind Law College in Karachi in the late fiftees. When Bhutto formed his Pakistan Peoples Party in 1967, he wanted Fazeel in; however he declined. That was a parting of ways. Fazeel had already enamoured Ayub Khan and Gohar Ayub, whose activities he opposed in Karachi. This culminated with his silent opposition to PPP in 1977 resulting in minor harassment in return from Bhutto. Ali Ahmed Fazeel reached the pinacle of his career in the 1980s. He was counted amognst Pakistan's most eminent lawyers that included Khalid Ishaq, S M Zafar and Sharifuddin Pirzada. In 1985, Pakistan's then Prime Minister removed the Attorney General A K Munshi and offered Mr Fazeel to join his government. And he did. However, Zia ul Haq, the military President in uniform dismissed Junejo in political rivalry in May 1988. Fazeel resigned. Ali Ahmed Fazeel is known in prominent legal circles. He passed away peacefully, in his sleep at his home on October 22nd, 2002 at the age of 80. |
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