Worked as Editor Supreme Court Reports from 1960 to 1963 Elected as Member of the West Pakistan Bar Council in 1964 and of the Pakistan Bar Council in 1966 Elevated as Judge of the High Court of West Pakistan on 11 March 1968 Appointed Judge (ad hoc) Supreme Court of Pakistan on 18 May 1977 being the YOUNGEST in history of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Made permanent Judge of the Supreme Court on 14 June 1979 Elected President SAARCLAW (Pakistan) January 1992 and President SAARCLAW for entire Saarc Region (1993–1995), Patron Saarc Law: 1997 President of B.C.C.P. 1992 to 1994 Appointed Chief Justice of Pakistan and chairman Pakistan Law Commission on 26 April 1993. Elected President “Markazzia Majilis-i-Iqbal” (The Central Iqbal Committee): 21 April 1994 Elected President “Quaid-e-Azam Forum” 3 June 1994 Elected chairman Electric Power Forum, 1996 Elected President Old Ravians Association, 1997 Appointed Visiting Professor at the Kulliyah of Laws, International Islamic University Malaysia to deliver a course of lectures on the Islamisation of Laws in Pakistan (1997) Designated Founding Chairman of The Citizens Media Commission, 1998 Elected President of Anjuman-i-Himayat-i-Islam (Association for the Service of Islam),1998 Bhutto case controversy Perhaps the only time in Pakistans' Judicial History that a petition against a Former Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan was filed, seeking registration of a case against him on charges of abetting in the "murder" of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. A division bench comprising Justices Sheikh Abdur Rashid and Bilal Khan held that the petition hardly qualified for processing because the judge of a bench could not be proceeded against in a case which had already been decided. The members of the bench felt that petitioner Mian Mohammad Hanif Tahir of the People's Lawyers Forum(PLF) was hardly prepared to address legal aspects of the case and questions arising out of the petition. Instead, he was agitating legal points in a political manner. One member of the bench remarked; In a situation where the judgment of a case was effective for citation as a reference, an ambiguous statement of one of the members of a panel of judges hearing the case, could in no way prejudice the decision after two decades. If such things were allowed to happen, the whole judicial system would collapse. (PLF) leader Hanif Tahir had quoted the former chief justice as saying in two of his press interviews that the