About
Mufti Zubair Ahmed sits on the Shariah Board of Meezan Bank and is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan as a Shariah advisor. In that capacity he has advised corporates on numerous short-term sukuk issuances.
On the Amanah bench his work is the Shariah compliance and governance side of an institution — the controls, reporting and oversight that decide whether a certified structure is still the one being sold twelve months later.
He completed his Dars-e-Nizami at Jamia Darul Uloom Karachi and specialised there for three years in iftā through the Takhassus fil-Iftā programme. He took his MBA in banking and finance at the Institute of Business Management as a gold medallist, and holds AAOIFI’s Certified Shariah Advisor and Auditor qualification alongside certification as a professional trainer from the International Association for People and Performance Development.
He teaches actively alongside the advisory work — at the Centre for Excellence in Islamic Finance at IBA Karachi, the State Bank of Pakistan’s National Institute of Banking and Finance, the Centre of Islamic Economics at Jamia Darul Uloom, and several other universities. He also advises the Kiran Foundation and the Moawin Foundation on zakat.
The two halves of that hold together. A governance framework is only ever as good as the people inside the institution who have to run it between reviews.
How Mufti Zubair works
- Reads the control environment. Whether a structure stays compliant is settled by reporting lines and controls, not by the fatwa on file.
- Issuance experience, on the record. Short-term sukuk taken through structuring and approval under SECP registration.
- Leaves the capability behind. Training built so the institution can carry its own compliance work between reviews.