{"id":54539,"date":"2015-06-25T12:31:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T07:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=54539"},"modified":"2015-06-25T12:32:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T07:32:28","slug":"54539","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2015\/06\/25\/54539\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor appoints Advocate Sher Madad Khan as Advocate General of Gilgit-Baltistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Safdar Ali Safdar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gilgit:<\/strong> The Governor Gilgit-Baltistan Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees Tahir on Wednesday appointed renowned Lawyer Advocate Sher Madad Khan as Advocate General of Gilgit-Baltistan under article 32 of the Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self Governance Order, 2009.<\/p>\n

The Secretary Law and Prosecutions Rahim Gul issued notification of the newly appointed Advocate General GB following an approval given by the Governor GB.<\/p>\n

Advocate Sher Madad Khan hailing from Yasin Ghizer is one of the most senior lawyers of Gilgit-Baltistan having more than 20 years of working experience with various legal forums including the Chief Court Gilgit-Baltistan.<\/p>\n

He has been served as President District Bar Association Ghizer, GB High Court Bar Association and other associations.<\/p>\n

Sher has also been fighting for the basic human and constitutional rights of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan by using his legal expertise.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Advocate Asadullah Khan has been serving on the position since Pevaiz Musharaf\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n

The duties and functions of the Advocate General under Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self Governance Order, 2009 were defined as:<\/p>\n

(1) The Governor shall appoint a citizen, being a person qualified to be appointed as Judge of the Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court, to be the Advocate General for Gilgit-Baltistan.<\/p>\n

(2 \u00a0 It shall be the duty of the Advocate General to give advice to Government upon such legal matter, and to perform such other duties of a legal character, as may be referred or assigned to him by the Government.<\/p>\n

(3) The Advocate General shall hold office during the pleasure of the Governor.<\/p>\n

(4) \u00a0The Advocate General may, by writing under his hand addressed to the Governor resigns his office.<\/p>\n

(5) The person holding the office as Advocate General immediately before the commencement of this Order shall be deemed to be the Advocate General, appointed under this Order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Safdar Ali Safdar Gilgit: The Governor Gilgit-Baltistan Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees Tahir on Wednesday appointed renowned Lawyer Advocate Sher Madad Khan as Advocate General of Gilgit-Baltistan under article 32 of the Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self Governance Order, 2009. The Secretary Law and Prosecutions Rahim Gul issued notification of the newly appointed Advocate General GB following an …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4682],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"better_featured_image":{"id":54540,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":470,"height":383,"file":"2015\/06\/Advocate-general.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Advocate-general-260x250.jpg","width":260,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Advocate-general.jpg?resize=260%2C250&ssl=1"},"medium":{"file":"Advocate-general-450x367.jpg","width":450,"height":367,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Advocate-general.jpg?fit=450%2C367&ssl=1"},"150x150":{"file":"Advocate-general-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Advocate-general-150x150.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"Advocate-general-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Advocate-general-415x260.jpg"},"120x85":{"file":"Advocate-general-120x85.jpg","width":120,"height":85,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Advocate-general-120x85.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":0,"credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":0,"copyright":"","focal_length":0,"iso":0,"shutter_speed":0,"title":"","orientation":0}},"post":54539,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Advocate-general.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Advocate-general.jpg?fit=470%2C383&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54542,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54539\/revisions\/54542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}