Ali Nawaz Chowhan

Justice Ali Nawaz Chowhan was a Pakistani judge. He started as a district judge in 1977 and was judge of the Lahore High Court from 1999 to 2005. From 2006, he was a judge for the Yugoslavia tribunal for three years. He was a judge for UNESCO in 2010. He was the Chief Justice of Gambia from 6 March 2014 until 12 May 2015. He was appointed as first chairman of Pakistan's National Commission on Human Rights in 2015.

Education

Chowhan studied at the University of Punjab and obtained both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws there. He also obtained degrees in sharia law and law at three different universities: in Pakistan the International [Islamic University, Islamabad|International Islamic University] in Islamabad and in Saudi Arabia the International Islamic University in Medina and the Umm al-Qura University in Mecca. He also followed several other in-depth studies in Pakistan and the United States, such as in the field of civil service law and the fight against drugs.

Death

Chowhan died from a cardiac arrest at Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad, on 3 September 2023. He was laid to rest in Rawalpindi on 4 September.