Octogenarian Sharifuddin Pirzada, the legal expert behind Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s controversial constitutional amendments, has been removed along with other advisors and assistants of the military regime.
Outgoing Cabinet Secretary S M Alam Rizvi said the Cabinet Division had issued a notification to end the long innings of Pirzada, who joined Musharraf’s administration when the former military ruler assumed power in October 1999.
Officially, the 84-year-old Pirzada was the senior advisor to the prime minister on foreign affairs, law, justice and human rights. He was the expert who drafted the Provisional Constitutional Order that Musharraf issued to sack 60 judges of the superior judiciary and impose sweeping curb on the media during last year’s emergency rule.