Sindh Muslim Law College
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| Motto | "Establish weight with justice and fall not short in the balance" |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | June 28, 1947 |
| Principal | Prof.Khurshid A.Hashmi |
| Location | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | University of Karachi, Pakistan Bar Council |
| Website | SMLC Official Website |
The Sindh Muslim Government Law College (Urdu: سنده مسلم گورنمنٹس لا کالج) or S. M. Law College (Urdu: ایس ایم لاء کالج) is located on Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed Road, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The college was established by its first Principal Hassanally A. Rahman, a leading Advocate of Sindh on the June 28, 1947 and was affiliated to the University of Sindh. It started functioning at Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam. After the closure of Shahani Law College, the college shifted to its present building in 1948 and is affiliated with the University of Karachi and University of London external programme.
Library
S M Law College has one of the oldest Law Library in Pakistan.The spacious and magnificent College Library is an important resource centre, primarily intended to provide undergraduate and postgraduate readers with the books they need for their studies, as well as having a valuable and ever increasing collection of legal works. The Library holds over 50,000 volumes, the core of which is a comprehensive range of legal materials for the practitioner and law student.
Former Faculty
B.A(Honours) in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
LLB, LLM, Christ Church, Oxford University of Oxford
Bar-at-Law, lincoln's Inn, London, United Kingdom
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
former Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan.
Present Principal
- Prof. Khurshid A. Hashmi
Degree Programs Offered
- B.A LLB(Honours)
- LLB
- LLM
Alumni
Supreme Court of Pakistan Judges:
- Tufail Ali Abdul Rehman
- Wajihuddin Ahmed
- Naeem-ud-din
- Mamoon Kazi
- Kamal Mansoor Alam
- Hamid Ali Mirza
- Saiyed Saeed Ashhad
- Zia Perwaiz
Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan Judges:
- Haziq-ul-Khairi – Chief Justice
- Shafi Mohammadi
Sindh High Court Judges:
- Majida Rizvi
- Syed Ghous Ali Shah
- Zafar Hussain Mirza
- Abdur Rahim Kazi
- Imam Ali Kazi
- Salahuddin Mirza
- Hussain Adil Khatri
- Nizam Ahmed
- Ghous Mohammad
- Sabihuddin Ahmed
- Abdul Ghani Shaikh
- S. A. Sarwana
- Mushtaq Memon
- Ghulam Nabi Soomro
- Atta-ur-Rahman
- Mushir Alam
- Agha Saifuddin
- Munib Ahmed Khan
Judges of other High Courts of Pakistan:
- lmdad Ali Agha; (student and professor), Judge, High Court of West Pakistan
- Zakaullah Lodhi; (student), Chief Justice, High Court of Baluchistan
- Syed Usman Ali Shah; (student), Chief Justice, High Court of Peshawar
- Mir Hazar Khan Khoso; (student), Judge, High Court of Baluchistan, caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan
Other notable persons:
- Syed Mohammad Nehal Hashmi - Senior Advocate High Court Sindh (Senator PML-N 2015-2022) (General Secretary PML-N Sindh chapter) (Former advisor of Prime Minister on Law Justice and Human Rights)
- Makhdoom Ali Khan – Senior Advocate Supreme Court (Former attorney general of Pakistan and chairman Pakistan Bar Council)
- Syed Qaim Ali Shah – Chief Minister of Sindh
- Rana Muhammad Akram Khan, former Chairman Punjab Bar Council.
- Akhtar Ali Kazi – former Chief Minister of Sindh, former Deputy Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh, former Minister of Education of Sindh
- Ghous Ali Shah – former Chief Minister of Sindh, former Defence Minister of Pakistan, former Federal Education Minister
- Syed Abdullah Shah – former Chief Minister of Sindh, former Speaker, Sindh Assembly
- Muzaffar Hussain Shah – former Speaker Sindh Assembly, former Chief Minister of Sindh
- Shahida Jamil – former Federal Minister for Women Development, former Minister for Law, Human Rights, Social Welfare and Environment
- Naimatullah Khan – former mayor of Karachi
- Farooq H. Naik – Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, former Federal Minister for Law and Human Rights
- Farman Fatehpuri – eminent scholar of Urdu language and literature
- Khalid Ali Z. Qazi – former Education Minister Sind, former Addl.Advocate General Sind
- Rasul Bux Palejo – senior politician
- Atif Jameel - Judicial Magistrate at High Court of Balochistan