I am a Barrister-at-law of the Hon’ble Society of Gray’s Inn, London, an Advocate High Courts of Pakistan and Senior Partner of Jamil & Jamil, Barristers-at-law a commercial and corporate law firm in Pakistan which is the only firm that also specialises in IT, IPR, Cyber crime and Data Protection.

I am the Chairman of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center (www.dndrc.com) which deals with domain name disputes under the .pk ccTLD and is a member of the Business and Commercial Users Constituency.

I am legal counsel to the IT Association in Pakistan (Pakistan Software Houses Association of IT & IT Enabled Services www.pasha.org.pk) and Chairman of the Electronic Business, IT & Telecom Commission of the Pakistan Chapter of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

I have been an active advocate of policy reform in Pakistan to improve the E-Crime Ordinance in line with international best practice and the CoE Convention on Cybercrime and have assisted the ISP Association, IT Association, the Computer Society of Pakistan and the ICC Pakistan Chapter in formulating their comments to the Government on the legislation. I have also been working informally with the Federal Investigation Agency’s National Response to Cyber Crime Cell (NR3C) in certain cyber crime cases.

In a recent event that took place in Pakistan, where a IT Company owner who was proved innocent was arrested for using VoIP, I provided pro bono legal advice. Also during Youtube’s blocking by Pakistan’s Telecom Authority, I successfully lobbied and advocated the withdrawal of the block.
As such I am deeply concerned about the stability and security of the Internet and the need to educate all stakeholders, especially regulators, against ill-advised regulatory mechanisms to ‘control’ the internet that may result in the fracturing or instability of a global, secure, stable and 24x7 available internet.

I have run several workshops and spoken at several events in Pakistan with the business community and especially the Banking community on Cyber security, and also participated in cyber security events abroad.

In this respect at the 2007 IGF in Rio I have been a panellist at the CoE Workshop "Legislative responses to current and future cyber-threats" and also been a panellist in the main Session at the Rio IGF on 14 November 2007.

I attended the 2007 IGF in Athens where I made interventions from the floor and was a panellist in the APC workshop. I also attended the IGF Second round of consultations on the convening of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 19 May 2006, Geneva.

I have participated in the 2007 ICANN meeting in New Delhi, the 2008 Dubai Regional Meeting and the 2008 ICANN Paris meeting.
Also as Chairperson Joint Legal Working Group and Member of AFACT Asia Pacific Council on Trade Facilitation and E-Commerce (AFACT), I have a particular interest in how the domain name system affects business and trade facilitation.

The internet has been a huge boost for developing country businesses. and has turned the pyramid on its head by empowering developing economy businesses with information which used to be the purview of government or vested interest. This has resulted in their being able to make quantum leaps in exports of goods and services where once the regulatory regimes imposed upon them would impede and restrict interaction and trade. Hence, developing economy businesses rely as much if not more on the availability, stability, security and global unity of the internet. As such, I believe that developing country businesses have an important role in providing input into the ICANN process. They currently enjoy little representation on the GNSO and as such I would wish to be a voice to advocate their role in the BC. However, as a representative elected to the GNSO Council by the collective members of the Business Constituency, I am required by the Constituency's Charter to support and otherwise remain faithful to approved positions of the Constituency as applicable. None of my clients presently have any contractual relationship with ICANN.