Editing Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (section)

==Judicial and political career==
Tarar started a career as a lawyer, soon after completion of his studies. In 1951, he enrolled as a pleader in the [[Lahore High Court]]. He started practicing as an advocate in the same court, in later years. He established a [[Gujranwala]]-based legal aid firm in 1960s and excelled at [[advocacy]]. In 1966, Tarar started a judicial career after he appeared and passed the competitive exams to be elevated as session judge in [[Judiciary of Pakistan#District judiciary|District Courts]]. In 1971, he became Chairman of the Punjab Labor Court. Tarar was appointed a judge at Lahore High Court, highest appellate judicial court of Punjab province, in October 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allamaiqbal.com/webcont/393/MuhammadRafiqTararelectedasPresident[1997].html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111091618/http://www.allamaiqbal.com/webcont/393/MuhammadRafiqTararelectedasPresident[1997].html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 January 2015 |title=Rafiq Tarar's judicial career|publisher=Allama Iqbal Academy|access-date=27 October 2019}}</ref>
[[File:Lahore_High_Court_Building.jpg|thumb|[[Lahore High Court]]]] 
Tarar served in the Lahore High Court as a justice for decades. He was also a member of the [[Election Commission of Pakistan]] where he represented Punjab. He was appointed the 28th [[Chief Justice of Lahore High Court]] where he served from 1989 to 1991 until his appointment as a judge in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. His appointment was made by then president [[Ghulam Ishaq Khan]] with the consent of Supreme Judicial Council. He served as a senior justice of the [[Supreme Court of Pakistan]] from January 1992 to November 1994. He was also an awaiting candidate of the [[Chief Justice of Pakistan]] but he retired earlier on attaining the age of 65 years and started a political career.<ref name="President Muhammad Rafiq Tarar"/> In 1994, following his retirement from the judiciary, Tarar entered into politics and started a political career as a legal adviser and close aide to then opposition leader [[Nawaz Sharif]]. In March 1997, he became a [[Senate of Pakistan|senator]] and represented [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]] in the upper-house of Pakistan until his resignation in December 1997. He was nominated as the presidential candidate by the [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)|PML(N)]] in the same year and secured a historical victory in the presidential election.<ref name="BBC Pakistan Bureau"/>