Honorable Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (Urdu: افتخار محمّد چودھری; 12 December 1948), MoF, is the 18th and current Chief Justice of Pakistan, having been nominated by President General Pervez Musharraf on 30 June 2005, prior to his suspension on 3 November 2007.

His suspension plummeted Musharraf's government and credibility, public rating approvals that dramatically declined eventually leading to his downfall of his presidency and departure from the country. After the successful long march, Lawyers' Movement, chief justice Chaudhry was reinstated by the Prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani on 22 March 2009. Grew up in Quetta of Balochistan Province, Chaudhry was educated at the Sindh University, Chaudhry became to practices the law as an advocate at the Sindh High Court in 1976, and ascended as a senior advocate at Supreme Court before taking a government law assignment in Quetta. He was appointed as the Additional Judge at the Balochistan High Court by then-President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1990, and was nominated by the President Rafiq Tarar as the Chief justice of Balochistan High Court in 1999. He controversially took oath under General Musharraf, validating the LFO ordnance, and ascended to the Supreme court in 2002. On 30 June 2005, President Musharraf approved the appointment of Chaudhry as chief justice, and refused to resign despite the pressure exerted by Musharraf, therefore leading to his suspension on 3 November 2007.

Muhammad (c. 26 April 570 – 8 June 632; also transliterated as Mohammad, Mohammed, or Muhammed; Arabic: محمد‎), full name: Muhammad Ibn `Abd Allāh Ibn `Abd al-Muttalib (Arabic: محمد بن عبدالله بن عبد المطلب ‎) was a leader from Mecca who unified the tribes of Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. He is believed by Muslims and Bahá'ís to be a messenger and prophet of God. Muslims believe that Islam was not his own invention but was revealed by God, and most consider him to be the last prophet of God Muslims thus consider him the restorer of an uncorrupted original monotheistic faith (islām) of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and other prophets.

Born in 570 CE in the Arabian city of Mecca, he was orphaned at an early age and brought up under the care of his uncle Abu Talib. He later worked mostly as a merchant, as well as a shepherd, and was first married by age 25. Being in the habit of periodically retreating to a cave in the surrounding mountains for several nights of meditation and prayer, he later reported that it was there, at age 40, that he received his first revelation from God. Three years after this event Muhammad started preaching these revelations publicly, proclaiming that "God is One", that complete "surrender" to Him (lit. islām) is the only way (dīn) acceptable to God, and that he himself was a prophet and messenger of God, in the same vein as other Islamic prophets.

Since March 2009 he has served as a member of the Senate of Pakistan representing the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). He has previously served as the President of the Karachi Division of the PPP, as well as a member of the PPP's Central Executive Committee, Now he is again appointed to his previous responsibility for the President of PPP karachi division, Syed Faisal Raza Abidi is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Al-Zulfiqar Group of Companies, Karachi, since 2008.