LAHORE: Former judge and ex-attorney general of Pakistan Malik Mohammad Qayyum died in Lahore on Friday.
According to information available in pubic domain, Malik Qayuum had served as Lahore High Court justice and also worked as attorney general of Pakistan.
The retired justice was the brother of MNA Pervaiz Malik and uncle of PML-N MNA Ali Pervaiz Malik.
His funeral prayers will be offered in Jamia Ashrafia Mosque after Juma prayers.
The Ex-AGP earned notoriety due to an audio-tape, attributed to his chit-chat with the then Accountability Chief Saifur Rahman, in which he was discussing sentences for slain PPP leader Benazir Bhutto and her husband, former President Asif Ali Zardari.
Malik Qayyum resigned from the LHC following the audio-tape controversy.
Qayyum was a senior lawyer of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and had advised the sitting benches of the higher judiciary on constitutional issues. He also held investigations into match fixing which was lauded by the ICC known as the “Qayyum Report”.
He was also in the news when he said that 2008 general elections were going to be rigged. On March 10, 2008 he rejected a plan by opposition lawmakers to reinstate the country’s ousted Supreme Court justices within 30 days of parliament’s first session, on the grounds that President Pervez Musharraf’s dismissal of the judges was legal under the constitution.
