Sherpur Group is an independent 'think-tank' which gives advice,assistance and provides highly sophisticated technical know-how and expertise in the political economic, social, legal and scientific fields to governments, corporations, foundations and other similar organizations and institutions.
Sherpur Group also gives advice on strategy and tactics of international affairs and defense.

Sherpur Group's primary objective is to provide advice, assistance, technical know-how and expertise to various governments, foundations, corporations and similar institutions in the fields of:

1. Oil and Gas Industry
2. Economic planning and development
3. Investment of capital in the national and international market
4. Industrial development and agriculture
5. Education and social development
6. Constitutional Law
7. Public relations
8. Scientific development and nuclear energy
9. International affairs
10. Defense.

Sherpur Group with its galaxy of its members and the experts at its disposal is prepared to give you advice, assistance and provide highly sophisticated technical know-how and expertise in all the fields mentioned above.

Samin Khan,
Barrister-at-Law,
Chairman,
Sherpur Group.

Sameen Khan wits born at Sherpur (U.P) on January 11, 1928. He belongs to a family of Buner-Swat region whose ancestor Darya Khan accompanied Ahmed Shah Abdali to the field of Panipat and played a decisive role as the Commander of the Cavalry in that famous charge on that fateful day--the 14th of January 1761.During the ensuing troubled period of Indian history the family acquired a large estate of more than four hundred square miles in the border districts of Pilibhit and Shahjehanpur.

Sherpur first became prominent on the social calendar of the super-elite of the British period-when in 1871, the Prince of Wales, the son of Queen Victoria- and a little earlier Lord Mayo, the Viceroy of India visited Sherpur for a tiger-shoot. Subsequently the visiting European Royalty, Viceroys, Governor, Generals- a galaxy of personalities which included Arch-Duke Ferdinand, the Heir to the Hapsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire (because of whose assassination at Sarajevo the first World War broke out), Lord Kichener, the Commander-in-Chief of India and others visited Sherpur for tiger shoots.

In 1911 Zaheer uddin Khan-- father of Sameen Khan joined first the Congress and Later on the Khilafat Movement and thereby brought the Sherpur Family into the vortex of the Freedom Movement.

Sameen Khan’s mother Noor Sabbath Begum under the influence of her husband commenced her political career by joining the Khilafat Movement and later on joined the Pakistan Movement and played a prominent role in it. It was because of her personality and the social status of the Sherpur Family that she brought the Muslim League out of the confines of the homes of New Delhi's Muslim bureaucrats to the common Muslim women of old Delhi.

The author was educated at St. Stephen's College Delhi and the Sind Muslim College, Karachi where he completed his B.A (Honors) in 1948. In 1950 he proceeded to Europe and joined the Lincoln’s Inn in 1951 and was called to the Bar in 1954, in 1955 he was awarded the South Western Legal Foundation Fellowship pt the Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas wherefrom he was awarded the degree of LLM in American Laws in 1956. Subsequently the same year he was awarded the Special Ford Foundation Fellowship by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where in 1957 he was awarded the Master of Comparative Law degree.

Mr. Sameen Khan advised the Government of Pakistan on Constitution and Law Reform from August 1961 till March 1962 Simultaneously he was the Constitutional Adviser to the President of Azad Government of Jammu and Kashmir. From August 1965 till December 1965 he was the adviser to the Islamic Research institute, Government of Pakistan. Later on in April 1968 he was appointed Chairman, Copyright Board, Government of Pakistan. And from March 1971 till August 1971 he was the Consultant on Copyright to the World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva.

Mr. Sameen Khan has written extensively an international law, foreign affairs, copyright and national politics. Ha has written the following books,

Published

• An introduction of Basic Democracy (Law)
  • Foreword by Mr. AK Brohi, ex-law Minister Government of Pakistan, Sentinel Publications, 1961;
• Pakistan-Ideology-Constitution -Laws-Foreign Policy,
  • Foreword by Z. A. Bhutto ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, Sentinel Publications 1961;

Under Publication

• The Constitutional Doctrines of Islam,
  • Foreword by Z. A. Bhutto (Constitutional Law):
    
• China and the United Nations-lnternationaI Law.

• More than ten articles have also been written on Sameen Khan himself.

• Mr. Sameen Khan has been Professor of international Law and Human Rights for the LLM since 1978.

• Mr. Sameen Khan has attended the following international conferences:

1. Inter-American Bar Conference held at Dallas Texas in 1956. Represented Pakistan as an observer;
2. Led the Pakistan Delegation to the Afro-Asian Convention Against Colonialism held at Delhi in April 1960. Mr. Mahmud Ali Qasuri, Senior Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan was a member of the Pakistan Delegation;
3. Led the Pakistan Delegation to the Third Afro Asian Solidarity Conference held at Moshi (Tanzania) in February 1963. Mr. Meraj Khalid, the Speaker of the National Assembly was a member of the Pakistan Delegation;
4. Conference on Violation of copyright by Specs Satellites held at Lausanne, Switzerland from the l9th to 31st April 1971 - Represented WIPO;
5. Diplomatic Conference for the Revision of the Berne Convention held at Paris from 5th till 29th of July 1971 - Represented W1PO;
6. Diplomatic Conference for the revision of the Universal Copyright Convention held at Paris from the 5th till the 24th of July 197 t - Represented WIPO;
7. UN ECOSOC Conference in July 1971 in Geneva- Represented WIPO;
8. International Law Commission in August 1971 at Geneva · Represented WIPO;
   

Afghanistan: More recently Mr. Sameen Khan has been prominent for taking part in the Jihaad in Afghanistan and the wide publicity of the Afghan Jihaad in the international press because of hit visits and has close relations with most of the Mujahideen leaders.

Sameen Khan took part in the Pakistan Movement at a member of the All India Muslim Students' Federation. Because of his family's role in the Pakistan Movement he was the youngest person to attend the last meeting of the Council of the All India Muslim League in December 1947.

Rasheed Ahmed Kidwai
Chairman,
Tehreek Nazriya Pakistan