Yahya Bakhtiar

Yahya Bakhtiar was a Pakistani lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Pakistan. Yahya was born in 1921 at Quetta, Balochistan, British India. Yahya Bakhtiar died on 27 June 2003, in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Education Yahya Bakhtiyar was born in a Pahtun / seyd family of Mastung. Yahya Bakhtiar studied at schools in Quetta and Lahore. He studied Law in London and was called to the Bar in the United Kingdom. He became a member of the All-India Muslim League in 1941. who voluntarily appeared to record his party's point of view on the motion to declare Ahmadiyya as non-Muslim. This resulted in the Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, that became a part of the Constitution of Pakistan on 7 September 1974, under the Government of Prime Minister . It declared that Ahmadis were not Muslims. This hanging of a democratically elected prime minister was called a "judicial murder" by many people in Pakistan.

Bakhtiar was elected as a member of National Assembly of Pakistan from the Quetta-Pishin constituency in 1977. Yahya was also appointed to the Senate of Pakistan. He was appointed Attorney General of Pakistan again when Benazir Bhutto became prime minister in 1988. He also represented Nawaz Sharif in the Supreme Court of Pakistan when then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolved the National Assembly by using his powers under Article 58(2)(B).

Family and survivors Yahya Bakhtiar was married to Eva Bakhtiar and had two sons and two daughters, including actress Zeba Bakhtiar.