Zainab is an advocate of the High Courts. She is a Barrister-at-Law from Lincolns Inn, having been called to the Bar of England and Wales in the year 2015. She has a LLM in International Business Law. She has L.L.B (Hons.) from University of London, International Programmes.

After completing her legal studies Zainab worked in an immigration and personal injury law firm in London. She has also appeared before employment tribunals in London working as a trained volunteer of Free Representation Unit (FRU).

Zainab joined the firm in January, 2016. Zainab has been the lead associate assisting the former founding partner of the firm, Justice Babar Sattar, in all cases before the High Courts and Supreme Court of Pakistan. Zainab is now a Partner at firm’s Islamabad office.

Zainab has been regularly representing clients in constitutional, commercial, civil and arbitration matters. Zainab regularly appears before high courts, civil courts, special tribunals and a number of regulatory bodies including Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP).

Her litigation focuses primarily on constitutional, competition and public procurement disputes. Zainab also has experience in handling commercial arbitrations against and for governmental entities. Zainab represents a broad range of clients including multinationals, public and private sectors bodies, non-governmental organisations and private individuals.

She has notable experience of advisory, consultancy and legislative work. She has worked as external legal adviser for Careem Pakistan, Nestle Pakistan and others private and governmental entities. Her areas of interest in consultancy work include legislative framework, infrastructure development and compliance with regulatory frameworks.

As part of firm’s pro bono commitment, Zainab has represented many clients before the Islamabad High Court in pro bono cases involving human rights violations. Zainab has recently been notified by the Islamabad High Court on the Panel of Defense Counsel for conducting Jail Appeals. Zainab has also been notified as a member of the Pakistan Bar Council’s Journalist Defence Committee.

Salaar is an advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan, and is admitted to practice law in the State of New York. He holds a Masters in Law from Columbia Law School, where he served on the board of the Columbia International Arbitration Association, and a BA-LL.B. (Hons.) from the Lahore University of Management Sciences, where he was President of the student body.

He regularly appears in constitutional; commercial; and taxation matters before the High Courts, and has also been appointed amicus curiae by the Islamabad High Court. In addition to representing private persons, Salaar has also represented authorities such as the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, the Frequency Allocation Board, and the National Commission for Human Rights.

Salaar joined AJURIS’s Islamabad office in 2020. Previously, he worked as an Associate to the Attorney-General for Pakistan where he assisted the Attorney-General in significant constitutional matters before the Supreme Court, as well as disputes before various international forums.

In addition to his litigation practice Salaar provides advisory and consultancy services to organisations such as the World Bank and the UNFPA, and has assisted with the drafting of laws and regulations for organisations such as the National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority. He is also a part of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Public Interest Law Association of Pakistan, a mentor for the US-based Revive Labs, and a member of the Government of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa’s Youth Development Commission.

He has also been a member of faculty for the University of London’s External LLB Program, where he has taught Public International Law; a self-designed seminar on the Pakistani legal system; and supervised final year dissertations.

Salaar writes columns on law and politics for The News, and regularly appears as a legal analyst on national and international media platforms such as BBC World.