Abid Hassan Minto

rdf:langString Abid Hassan Minto

rdf:langString Abid Hassan Minto

rdf:langString Abid Hassan Minto

rdf:langString Habib Jalib Peace Award in 2017

rdf:langString Abid Hassan Minto

rdf:langString President of Awami Workers Party

rdf:langString Apni Jang Rahay Gi published in 2016

rdf:langString Nuqta-e-Nazar published in 1986

rdf:langString Lawyer, human rights activist, workers rights activist

rdf:langString Abid Hassan Minto also known as Abid Minto (Urdu: عابد حسن منٹو) (born 3 February 1932) is a constitutional expert and senior lawyer of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, and former president of the Awami Workers Party. He is also a literary critic and a leftwing civic and political leader. His legal career spans over 50 years during which he was elected member of the Pakistan Bar Council from 1966 up to 1983; President, Lahore High Court Bar Association (1982); Chairman, National Coordination Committee of Lawyers (1981 to 1985) and President, Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan (SCBA) (1997 to 1999). Minto has also been affiliated with the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) in which he was elected vice-president at its Barcelona Congress (1990) and Bureau Member at its Cape Town Congress (1995). He was professor of law at the Law College of the Punjab University 1963 to 1983. Minto belongs to the Marxist school of thought in politics and in his writings.