Chief Justice of the Federal Shariat Court

The chief justice of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan heads the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan. The chief justice of the Shariat Court is the second-highest judicial office in the country, after the chief justice of Pakistan.

The current chief justice of Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan is Hameedur Rahman.^[1][2]

List of chief justices

These are the names of the chief justices of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan, which came into being in 1980.^[3]

Temporal order	Name	From	To	Ref.
1	Salahuddin Ahmed	28 May 1980	31 May 1981
2	Sheikh Aftab Hussain (acting)	1 June 1981	14 October 1984
3	Sardar Fakhr e Alam (acting)	15 October 1984	7 November 1984
4	Gul Muhammad Khan	8 November 1984	8 November 1990
5	Tanzil-ur-Rahman	17 November 1990	16 November 1992
6	Mir Hazar Khan Khoso	17 November 1992	18 July 1994	[4]
7	Nazir Ahmad Bhatti	19 July 1994	4 January 1997
8	Mian Mehboob Ahmad	8 January 1997	7 January 2000
9	Fazal Ellahi Khan	12 January 2000	11 January 2003	[5]
10	Chaudhry Ejaz Yousaf	9 May 2003	8 May 2006	[6]
11	Haziq-ul-Khairi	9 May 2006	4 June 2009	[7]
12	Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan	5 June 2009	4 June 2014	[8]
13	Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan	5 June 2014	5 December 2014	[9]
14	Fida Muhammad Khan (acting)	12 December 2014	7 March 2015	[10]
15	Riaz Ahmad Khan	7 March 2015	14 May 2017	[11]
16	Najam ul Hassan	15 May 2017	10 May 2019	[12]
17	Muhammad Noor Meskanzai	15 May 2019	14 May 2022	[13]
18	Justice Dr. Syed Muhammad Anwer (acting)	16 May 2022	1 June 2022	[14]
19	Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rahman	1 June 2023	Incumbent

List of sitting judges of Federal Shariat Court

• Hon'ble Mr. Justice Dr. Syed Muhammad Anwer, Acting Chief Justice Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan^[15]
• Khadim Hussain M. Shaikh, Judge^[16]