A Discussion with Maleeka Bokhari Moderated by Zainab Samantash - A Webinar

Maleeka Bokhari is a Barrister, and a Member of Parliament from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. She is currently serving as Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Law and Justice in Pakistan, and is responsible for the legislative business in Parliament. She is at the forefront of the Government’s law reform agenda and part of the legal team drafting the Action Plan for the Women in the Justice system. In addition, she is currently drafting various pieces of legislation with Barrister Farogh Naseem, Federal Minister for Law and Justice in Pakistan. Maleeka has over ten years of professional legal experience in the United Kingdom and Pakistan. She obtained her LLB Honors in 2007, and was awarded the Helena Kennedy QC Scholarship award for her academic achievements. She completed the Bar Vocational Course in 2008 and was called to the Bar of England and Wales as a Queen Mother Scholar thereafter. She is currently admitted as an Advocate of the High Courts in Pakistan. She has undertaken work in all major facets of civil legal practice. Maleeka is a fierce human rights advocate, and passionate about law reform and gender equality. She moved from UK to use her professional experience to contribute to development of Pakistan.

Zainab Samantash is an Advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan. She has an LLB Honors degree, with First Class Distinction, from the University of London and an LLM from Harvard Law School, where the focus of her study was Comparative Constitutional Law and Political Theory. She has previously worked with a top-ranked Karachi based law firm, practicing mainly in constitutional law and tax law. In addition, she has served as a visiting faculty in various law schools and is currently a member of the National University of Science and Technology’s Internal Review Board. She runs her law practice based out of Islamabad.

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