KARACHI: Senior lawyer Sharifuddin Pirzada passed away in the city on Friday morning. He was 94 years old.
Hearing news of the senior lawyer's demise, the Sindh High Court decided to discharge all the boards. Important cases in the high court will be heard inside the judges' chambers.
Pirzada, who was most recently the counsel for former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf in the treason case against him, was considered the top constitutional expert of Pakistan.
Pirzada was not considered a friend of democracy by rights activists of the country as he wrote the legal order for Musharraf's emergency rule, updating a similar one he prepared for General Ziaul Haq after his 1977 coup.