Habib Kareem

BIOGRAPHY

A lawyer among intellectuals and an intellectual among lawyers” is what Habib Kareem has always aspired to become. Raised in a family with strong literary background in a far-flung area of District Kharan of Baluchistan province, he began his educational career at the Baluchistan Residential College Loralai, a renowned residential college in the province. In his matriculation exams he secured 9th position throughout the province. This distinction earned him a fully funded scholarship at the Cadet College Murree at District Rawalpindi from where he did his Intermediate in Pre-medical.

Along with being a polyglot fluent in five languages including Balochi, Pashto, Brahui, Urdu and English, Habib is also an avid reader of literature, philosophy, politics and history - disciplines that ultimately drew him to the law as a profession aligned with his intellectual passions. During his Bachelors at QAU, he remained a dynamic student actively participating in co-curricular activities, community work and literary circles. He demonstrated his academic caliber early on in first semester, securing second place in a nationwide essay writing competition throughout Pakistan, at Peshawar Youth Carnival, organized by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2017.  

He graduated from Quaid-I-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, Pakistan’s top-ranking University with a CGPA of 3.8. His Bachelors’ dissertation on the “Deconstruction of Human Rights Law from the Perspective of the Marginalized Other”, reflects the sophisticated application of philosophy and post-colonial theories on Law. In 2023, His research paper “Human Rights, Development & Territory: International Law and the Popular Consciousness in South Asia” secured first position in a South Asian research competition jointly organized by the International Law and the Global South (India) and the Research Society of International (RSIL), Pakistan. This work was subsequently published in the University of Bristol’s “Student Research Journal (Issue 5, 2023/24)”.

Following his graduation in 2022, Habib joined Law and Policy Chambers, Islamabad where he focused on criminal, civil and family litigation, while developing a specialized expertise in Consumer Protection Law. Since 2024, he is also serving as Islamabad-based litigation counsel for the Central Depository Company (CDC) where he handles court litigation and complex transactional matters.

Habib also possesses extensive experience working with international organizations. Before joining Four Golf Road Chambers in January 2026, he was also serving as a Protection Lawyer for refugee rights in a project of the International Organization for Migration (IOM-UN). While working with the IOM-UN, he engaged in providing legal assistance and protection-related services to refugees, asylum seekers, and other vulnerable population under the IOM project. Representing the IOM, he has delivered guest lectures at the Police Training School Rawalpindi and Police Lines, Islamabad, and has facilitated multiple training sessions on Citizenship Law and human rights protection for the Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Taxila Bar Associations

From litigation and transactional work to citizenship, refugee, human rights, and constitutional law, Habib brings a diverse and intellectually rigorous perspective to the team at Four Golf Road Chambers.