Zahid Hamid

Zahid Hamid (born 24 October 1947) is a Pakistani politician, and lawyer. A member of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Hamid previously served as the Minister for Law and Justice and Minister of Climate Change in the Third Sharif ministry between 2015 and 2017. He briefly served as the Minister of Law and Justice in June 2013 before being appointed Minister of Science and Technology from June 2013 to November 2014. He again served as Minister for Law and Justice under Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi from August 2017 until he resigned in November 2017.

Hamid had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to May 2018.

Family and education

Hamid was born on 24 October 1947 in Lahore, Punjab,

Hamid's brother Shahid Hamid, served as Governor of Punjab in 1997 and was senior leader in Pakistan Muslim League.

In 2008, Hamid joined the PML(N). Between 2008 and 2013, he was active member of the PML-N in National Assembly when the party was in opposition. Due to the treason trial of Pervez Musharraf. Hamid abruptly resigned from the Science ministry after the special court inducted him on a Musharraf treason trial. On hearing the court's decision, Hamid tendered his resignation to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

In November 2015 he was made Minister of Climate Change and in 2016, Hamid was given the additional portfolio of the Minister of Law and Justice. Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as Prime Minister of Pakistan in August 2017, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Abbasi. He was appointed federal Minister of Law and Justice. He stepped down from the ministerial office of Minister for Law and Justice in November 2017, following the 2017 Tehreek-e-Labaik protest.