Waheed Ahmad
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Caste Discrimination/Persecution
- Deportees/Criminal Deportees
- Disability
- Document Authentication
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Forced Marriage
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Healthcare Access/Health Systems Capacity
- HIV/AIDS
- Journalist Persecution
- Land Tenure Dispute
- LGBTQ
- Likelihood Of Destitution/Homelessness
- Mental Illness
- Political Persecution
- Prison Conditions
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
- Risk Of Retaliation
- Safe Internal Relocation
- Sexual Abuse/Assault
- Specialized Medical Services
- Sufficiency Of Protection
- Torture
- Trafficking
- Tribal Discrimination/Persecution
About Waheed Ahmad
Waheed Ahmad is a human rights lawyer from Pakistan who currently serves as an Advisory Committee Member at The National Commission of Human Rights Pakistan. As an Advocate at the High Court of Pakistan and a registered foreign lawyer (SRA) in England and Wales, he has worked as an Appellate Court Attorney for the past 24 years, defending more than a thousand clients, including juveniles, women, and minorities, including members of the LGBT community. He is the author of “Young Lives, Justice Delayed: Tracing Juveniles Facing or Convicted of Offenses Punishable by Death Penalty (DP)” and “Life Imprisonment (LI) in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.” He specializes in the Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regions and has prepared expert reports for lawyers and organizations concerning Pakistani cases. His expertise spans a wide range of critical issues, including:
Human rights, security, prison conditions, and fact-finding in Pakistan
Challenges faced by Afghan refugees, religious and ethnic minorities, and tribal communities
Sensitive topics such as moral crimes, honor killings, and LGBTQ issues
Islamic law concerns like marriage, divorce, child custody, and property rights
Forensic document examinations, focusing on authenticity within Pakistani contexts.
He has written hundreds of expert reports for over 100 legal and other organizations based in Australia, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Canada, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
