Mohammed Sarwar Khan
MSK@AzZaman.com.pk

             Mohammed Sarwar Khan, consultant, received his B.A. (Hons.) degree in Law & Economics and Diploma in Higher Education in Politics from the University of Central Lancashire in 1989.  He is a recipient of the Princes’ Trust Award (U.K.).  He is enrolled as an advocate of the High Court by the Punjab Court Bar Council and is a member of Lincoln’s Inn.  Before joining Az Zaman, Mr. Sarwar Khan worked as an associate with a leading law firm in Lahore.  He has been a visiting lecturer in laws at institutions in England and Pakistan, including the Pakistan Foreign Service Academy.  He has contributed articles to various publications and is currently writing on Islamic laws and human rights.  

          Whilst in the United Kingdom, Mr. Sarwar Khan was a member of the Executive Committee of the Pendle Racial Equality Council, and a member of the Board of Governors and the Academic Board, Burnley College of Arts & Technology.  He delivered lecturers on law and policy at Burnley Borough Council and Lancashire County Council.

          Mr. Sarwar Khan was invited as the key-note speaker and resource person at The British Council and The Network 2001 seminar on the right to good governance.  He has consulted and published on local government and devolution, subsidiarity and rights, the proposed freedom of information legislation and other laws in Pakistan, the right to good governance, consumer, competition and monopoly laws in Pakistan, and has drafted model legislation on different areas of law.  He is a member of the National Reference Group on Competition Law (including mergers and acquisitions), and adviser and member of the Advisory Board, Local Government & Rural Development, Government of Pakistan. 
         
          Mr. Sarwar Khan specializes in corporate & commercial matters, privatization & regulatory laws, energy and power, Islamic banking, constitutional law, international laws and human rights. Combining his knowledge and experience of laws, legal practice, rights and development he has developed a leading law and governance consultancy practice.