Yahya Bakhtiar
Yahya Bakhtiar () was a Pakistani lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Pakistan. Yahya was born in 1921 at Quetta, Balochistan, British India. Yahya Bakhtiar died on June 27, 2003, in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Education Born into Pashtun family, Yahya Bakhtiar studied at schools in Quetta and Lahore. He studied Law in London and was called to the Bar in the United Kingdom. He became a member of the All-India Muslim League in 1941. Career Yahya Bakhtiar, as the attorney general, played a key role in framing of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan when he served in Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's cabinet. His biggest contribution was cross-examination of Mirza Nasir Ahmad, leader of the Ahmadiyya group in front of the parliament committee, who voluntarily appeared to record his party's point of view on the motion to declare Ahmadiyya as non-muslim. This resulted in the Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, that became a part of the Constitution of Pakistan on September 7, 1974, under the Government of Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. It declared that Ahmadis were not Muslims. In 1974, he also joined the Pakistan Peoples Party after leaving the Council Muslim League.