Birth—1938
Where—Mogulserai, India

Education—GCU, PU, Oxford

Bibliography

• Waters of Lahore: A Memoir (2013)

• Pakistan, political and constitutional dilemmas (1987)

Based in Karachi, Barrister Kamal Azfar is a well-known lawyer, writer and political figure. Educated at Government College, Lahore, and Balliol College, Oxford, he was called to the Bar at the Inner temple, London. Returning to Pakistan, he established his Law practice in Karachi. As a writer, Barrister Azfar has mostly written on issues concerning economics, history and politics.

He was Research Assistant to Nobel Prize Winning Economist Gunnar Myrdal on his magnum opus The Asian Drama: 1960-63. His later publications have included The Chinese Synthesis (1975), Pakistan: Political and Constitutional Dilemmas (1987), an anthology titled Pakistan under the Military (1991), Asian Drama Revisited (1992), Good Governance (1994), Discovery of Pakistan (2005), and, most recently, Waters of Lahore (2014).

In his political career, he has throughout been a member of the Pakistan Peoples Party. He has been a Member of the Sindh Assembly and of the Senate. He has held such key offices as Sindh Minister for Finance, Planning and Development, Federal Minister for Local Government and Rural Development and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister, and Governor of Sindh.

Waters of Lahore: A Memoir
Kamal Azfar
What the author describes as a “trilogy consisting of the Transfer of Power, Camelot by the sea, and Asian Drama Revisited,” The Waters of Lahore, a memoir by Kamal Azfar, is essentially a comprehensive political history of Pakistan. Starting with the inception and development of the idea of a separate country for the Muslims of South Asia to the general elections of 2013, the book is a well documented and researched text and reproduces several court judgments.