Former PCO judge and PG made Judicial Commission’s amicus curiae

ISLAMABAD: Barrister KK Agha, appointed as amicus curiae of the Judicial Commission, which is inquiring into the deliberate systematic rigging in the 2013 general elections, is a seasoned lawyer, who has held different senior legal positions.
Till recently he was working as the prosecutor general of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).Way back in nineties, Agha had defended Zardari before the Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid led judicial commission that had inquired into the September 1996 murder of Mir Murtaza Bhutto.
As the Supreme Court had fixed the long awaited date of hearing of the review petition against the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) judgment, Agha had been nominated as the NAB prosecutor general.
Before that, instead of Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq, KK Agha, as additional attorney general (AAG), was in-charge of the government side in the Supreme Court in major cases and had also filed the review petition against the NRO ruling.
He had held the position of the AAG before his selection as the NAB prosecutor general.
In the NRO judgment, the court had “suggested” that the federal government may make fresh appointments against the posts of the NAB chairman and the prosecutor general and his deputy “possessing high degree of competence and impeccable integrity in terms of Section 6 of the NAB Ordinance as also in terms of its observations made in the case of Khan Asfandyar Wali Vs Federation of Pakistan (PLD 2001 SC 607).”
The judgment in the Khan Asfandyar Wali case specified qualifications and bounds to be observed in the nomination of prosecutor general. It said that in view of the legal nature of his duties, he must be a person qualified to be appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court in that his duty is to give advice to the NAB chairman upon such legal matters and to perform such other duties of a legal character as may be referred or assisted to him by the NAB chairman and, in the performance of his duties, he has a right of audience in all courts including the high courts and the Supreme Court.
As lawyer KK Agha had also defended alleged corruption cases against Benazir Bhutto and Zardari during the nineties. He was also part of the government panel of lawyers along with Barrister Kamal Azfar in petitions against the NRO.
KK Agha remained judge of the Sindh High Court (SHC) for a few months in 2009 after taking oath under Musharraf’s PCO but had to go because of the July 31, 2009 judgment of the Supreme Court against the Nov 3, 2007 action of Pervez Musharraf. According to lawyers, as judge KK Agha used to correct English language of his colleagues and others.
KK Agha, whose father is a landlord of interior Sindh and a (non-practicing) lawyer, was born to an English lady, who lives in Britain. He was brought up and studied in England.