8. Babar Awan
Babar Awan is another political gadfly.
He was the former Federal Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Pakistan, and Vice President of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
In November 2009, National Accountability Bureau of Pakistan summoned Awan after he was accused for getting bribes worth 30 million Pakistani Rupees from the owners of the Haris Steel Mill in order to get a favorable verdict from the court.
Awan was reported to have said that he had certainly not taken 30 million rupees and that the money he had taken was his professional fee.
On January 5, 2012, Awan was issued a contempt of court notice by Supreme Court of Pakistan, due to a comment he made while talking to the media on 4 January.
His license to practice law was subsequently suspended on 17 January for an indefinite period.
The Supreme Court further asked the Federal Government to appoint someone else as their lawyer in the Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto case.
Ali Ahmad Kurd disagreed with the Supreme Court's decision to suspend Awan's license. He was a witness in conntempt case.
The President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari in a briefing to his close confidants disclosed that he had given a personal guarantee that Babar Awan will appear before the court as a witness in Prime Minister's contempt case.
This was later confirmed by Prime Ministers council Aitezaz Ahsan in an interview given to Arshad Sharif for his program ‘Kyun'.
