Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is the current Chief Justice of Pakistan. He was born on December 12, 1948 in Quetta and has a bachelor’s degree in arts and law.

He joined the legal profession as an advocate in 1974 and was appointed as the Chief Justice in 2005. However, he was suspended in March of 2007 on alleged charges of corruption by former president Pervez Musharraf.

His suspension resulted in a massive lawyers’ movement that demanded his restoration as the Chief Justice. He was reinstated by Musharraf on July 20, 2007 and since then has been serving Pakistan.

He remains one of the only Chief Justices in Pakistan to have taken legal action against different intelligence agencies and the ruling government of Pakistan.

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