# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/waqar-ahmed-seth
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:50:15.917Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/waqar-ahmed-seth"
name: "Waqar Ahmed Seth"
slug: "waqar-ahmed-seth"
description: "Waqar Ahmed Seth was a Pakistani jurist who was the Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court between June 2018 and November 2020. He presided over the special court which heard the high treason case against Pervez Musharraf and the presiding judge of the three-member special court that convicted Musharraf of this crime and sentenced him to death in a controversial decision. That was the first time in Pakistan's history that a military dictator was convicted of high treason."
tagline: "Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Bab-e-Khyber.jpg/330px-Bab-e-Khyber.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1961-03-16"
deathDate: "2020-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.871022666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Waqar Ahmed Seth"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waqar_Ahmed_Seth"
    title: "Waqar Ahmed Seth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Waqar Ahmad Seth"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%B9%DA%BE"
    title: "وقار احمد سیٹھ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وقار احمد سیٹھ"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waqar_Ahmed_Seth"
    title: "Waqar Ahmed Seth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56651269"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump