Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan

Sardar Muhammad Raza was the Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan from 6 December 2014 to 5 December 2019. who previously served as retired judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and as Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court.

Early life, education and training Muhammad Raza was born in the Namli Maira village in the district of Abbottabad on 10 February 1945. Raza belongs to the prominent Karlal tribe in Abbottabad. After graduating from the Government College of Abbottabad, Khan received a master's degree in economics from Punjab University through the Forman Christian College University in Lahore. He received a LL.B. degree from the same university in 1967.

Major cases On 28 September 2007, a nine-member Supreme Court of Pakistan bench, in a split 6–3 verdict, held that a petition challenging Pervez Musharraf's candidacy for a second term as president was invalid. Raza, head of bench Rana Bhagwandas and Mian Shakirullah Jan dissented with the majority opinion. Declaring the petition invalid were Javed Iqbal, Abdul Hameed Dogar, M. Javed Buttar, Mohammad Nawaz Abbasi, Faqir Muhammad Khokhar and Falak Sher.

In another case, in his separate note, he held that all beneficiaries of NRO be dealt with equality and without discrimination; that the monitoring cell constituted within the supreme court is unprecedented, and the court should take action only when violation of its order is complained by any aggrieved party. Sardar Muhammad Raza has also been the top judge at the Federal Shariat Court since June 2014.