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Pakistani politician (1935–2015)

Abdul Hafeez Pirzada (Urdu: عبدالحفیظ پیرزادہ; 24 February 1935 – 1 September 2015) was a Pakistani lawyer, legal theorist, and politician, who served variously as minister for information, minister for law, minister for finance, and minister for education under president and later prime ministerZulfikar Ali Bhutto from 1971 to 1977.

As law minister, he is credited as a principal draftsman of the Constitution of Pakistan, passed in 1973.

Trained as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn, Pirzada was a founding member of the Pakistan People's Party.

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He was elected to the National Assembly in the elections of 1970, holding several ministerial portfolios in the Bhutto government. After the government was deposed by General Zia-ul-Haq in 1977, Pirzada unsuccessfully assisted with Bhutto's defence in his criminal trial for murder.

He briefly led the PPP before being imprisoned by the Zia regime, eventually leaving the party over differe