barrister from Pakistan
a Lincoln's Inn Barrister, Jurist and Scholar born in Batala, India, sub-Continent before independence on September 7th, 1923. Later his family migrated to Pakistan and settled in Lahore. He graduated from Government College University in 1943, Lahore and went to London for higher studies of Law and admitted in Lincoln's Inn to become a Barrister 1949. He remained a Law Professor for about fifty years in University Law College, Punjab University. He worked for All India Radio, Delhi, then BBC Urdu in London during his studies of Law and Radio Pakistan. He died at age of 81 year due to prostate cancer. He become popular after the Allama Mashraqi case he conducted. Then he appeared in Col. Gardezi case which taught in British Law School as a precedent. His colleague Barrister M. Anwar appointed Public Prosecutor in Bhutto murder trial and all of sudden Barrister M.Anwar died and Batalvi forced to accept to become Prosecutor of his Badge mate Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who lastly executed by General Zia ul Haq, a dictator who imposed Martial Law on July 5, 1977. He voluntarily appeared as a defense Lawyer for Nawaz Sharif when another Martial Law was imposed by the dictator by General Pervez Musharraf in October 1999 and succeeded to save him from execution resultantly Nawaz Sharif family went to Saudi Arabia for Exile.
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