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Asad Rahim Khan is a barrister and writer based in Lahore, Pakistan. He is a partner at Ashtar Ali LLP, where he focuses on constitutional law, commercial litigation, and international arbitration. He has been appointed amicus curiae by the Lahore High Court on constitutional matters.
He has previously represented the Office of the Attorney-General, where he helped draft the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, merging the Federally Administered Tribal Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He was also part of the federation’s team before the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers, lifetime disqualification, and dissident voter cases.
In 2021, he represented Punjab’s local governments seeking to serve out their complete tenure after being unlawfully dissolved. In 2020, he was included in the Prime Minister’s Working Group of Experts on international investment treaty reforms.
He is currently an adjunct faculty member at LUMS, where he teaches constitutional law; he is also an op-ed columnist for Dawn, and his writing has appeared in Newsline, Herald, and the Express Tribune. He read law at the London School of Economics, and was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn. Before entering practice, he clerked for Justices Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Ijaz-ul-Ahsan at the Lahore High Court.
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