Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui

The Honourable Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui
سعید الزمان صدیقی
31st Governor of Sindh
In office 11 November 2016 – 11 January 2017
President	Mamnoon Hussain
Prime Minister	Nawaz Sharif
Preceded by	Ishratul Ibad Agha Siraj Durrani (Acting)
Succeeded by	Muhammad Zubair Umar
15th Chief Justice of Pakistan
In office 1 July 1999 – 26 January 2000
Appointed by	Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
Preceded by	Ajmal Mian
Succeeded by	Irshad Hasan Khan
7th Chief Justice Sindh High Court
In office 5 November 1990 – 21 May 1992
Preceded by	Sajjad Ali Shah
Succeeded by	Nasir Aslam Zahid
Personal details
Born	(1937-12-01)1 December 1937 United Provinces, British India (now in Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died	11 January 2017(2017-01-11) (aged 79) Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Spouse	Ashraf Saeeduzaman Siddique
Children	Afnan Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui
Parent	Muhammad Naeem Siddique Basheer-un-nisa
Alma mater	University of Dhaka University of Karachi

Saeed Uz Zaman Siddiqui (

On 9 November 2016, Nawaz Sharif contacted Justice Siddiqui and asked him to accept the position of the Governor, in the wake of event which followed the dismissal of Dr. Ishratul Ibad Khan. Justice Siddiqui was sworn in as the 31st Governor of Sindh on 11 November 2016. He died in office exactly two months later.

Appointments

• Appointed Member of Election Commission of Pakistan on 9 August 1980.
• Appointed as Chairman Rule Committee of High Court of Sindh on 1 February 1986.
• Appointed Chairman Sindh Zakat Council on 13 September 1988.
• Appointed as Member of Company Law Commission on 7 June 1989.
• Appointed Acting Governor of Sindh from 27 July 1990 to 30 July 1990.
• Appointed Acting
  High Court
  of Sindh from 19 September 1990 to 19 October 1990.
• Appointed as 15th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 1 July 1999 to 25 January 2000 was until December 2005
• Appointed Chairman of Citizens' Group on Electoral Process (CGEP)
• Member
  OIC
  contact group, also submitted a report on 'Bulgarian Muslims Social condition'
• Appointed as Governor of Sindh on 9 November 2016

Activities

• Appointed as Member of 3-men Contact Group, by Secretary-General of the
  Organization of Islamic Conference to investigate the plight of Muslim minority in Bulgaria in May 1986. He presented the first report of the group to the 17th Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers held at Amman, Jordan
  , in March 1988, a second report to the 18th Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers at Riyadh in March 1989, and the third report to the 19th Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers at Cairo in July 1990.
• Also presented a preliminary report on the plight of Muslim minority in Bulgaria in the Extraordinary Session of Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers in New York in October 1989. Attended the 17th, 18th, 19th and the Extraordinary Session of Islamic Conferences of Foreign Ministers in Amman, Riyadh, Cairo and New York on special invitation of Secretary-General of Organization of Islamic Conference.
• He was the Chairman of numerous organizations, some of which are The Council for Foreign Relations Economic Affairs and Law and President of the Poor Patient's Society of Pakistan. He was the Chairman of the World Bank supported Organization for Alternative Dispute Resolution (Pakistan).
• He was also the nominee judge for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, from Pakistan.
• On 25 August 2008,
  Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf
  for the Prime Minister candidate when the interim government comes into power after March 2013.
• On 9 November 2016, Mamnoon Hussain in consultation with Nawaz Sharif appointed him as the Governor of Sindh province.

Illness and death

Siddiqui contracted pneumonia and was hospitalised in early November 2016. He returned to the Governor House on 11 December 2016 and died on 11 January 2017 as a serving governor when he contracted another pneumonia on his healthy right lung. His state funeral was organised in the Governor House, making him the second person in the history of the country to receive a state funeral after Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. He was 77.^[7][8][9]

In 2018, Siddiqui was posthumously awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz - Pakistan's third highest civilian honour - by President Mamnoon Hussain.^[10]

Siblings

He had 4 brothers and 4 sisters named

Brothers

1) Qamar uzzaman Siddique

2) Badr uzzaman Siddique

3) Khaliq uzzaman Siddique

4) Anees uzzaman Siddique

Sisters

1) Mehr-un-nisa

2) Tahira Mehmood

3) Surraya Iqbal

4) Kausar Waseem

See also

• Supreme Court of Pakistan
• Chief Justices of Pakistan
• Haziqul Khairi
• Siddiqui
• Nawaz Sharif
• Pakistan Muslim League (N)
• Provisional Constitutional Order
• List of Pakistanis

References