Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gillani Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gillani Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gilani (born 18 July 1940) served as Pakistan's Federal Minister of Law. He was born in Kohat, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. His early education was at Islamia College, Peshawar, Iftikhar joined Forman Christian College, Lahore, in 1956. After studying law at Punjab University from 1959–61, in 1967 Iftikhar moved to Peshawar to practice the Law. In 1970 elections he contested for the Provincial Assembly as an independent candidate. Losing his first election he joined the PPP in 1971. Elected to Parliament in 1988 he served as Federal Minister for law in the first government
Veenendal v Minister of Justice me or I will kill a hostage." If the courts were to surrender to this kind of pressure, the very foundations of justice would be subverted in a manner which might do irreversible damage to the image of justice and to the values upon which any civilised system of law must be based. The court had an inherent jurisdiction to grant bail to a person who had been committed to prison by a magistrate in terms of the Extradition Act, even though no appeal was pending against the magistrate's finding under section 10(1). Veenendal v Minister of Justice Veenendal v