ISLAMABAD: The caretaker governmenton Mondayappointed senior lawyer Tariq Mehmood Khokhar additional attorney general.

Mr Khokhar, who has assumed his office inside the Supreme Court building in the attorney general’s office, has been appointed additional attorney general for a second time; he served in the same post in 2013.

Mr Khokhar is one of the founding members of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, as well as the human rights cell in the attorney general’s office that was established by former attorney general Munir A. Malik. The third member of the cell was senior counsel Faisal Siddiqui.

He headed the human rights cell after Mr Malik left the office of attorney general, and singlehandedly death with missing persons cases.

At one point during the tenure of former chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, seven people earlier believed out of a total of 35 summoned by the court were produced before the SC in December 2013.

Mr Khokar did his LLM in Public International Law in 1983 from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and completed his barrister at law in 1982 from the Inns of Court School of Law.

He was an associate of former law minister and renowned lawyer S. M. Zafar and is a visiting lecturer at the Punjab University Law College.

Published in Dawn, July 17th , 2018