Syed Adnan Kakakhail

Kakakhail was schooled in Nigeria. He graduated from Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia in the "dars-e-nizami", and also specialised in Islamic jurisprudence and Islamic Economics. He received an MA degree in Political Science and an LLB degree from the University of Karachi.

His teachers include Abdur Razzaq Iskander and Abu Lubaba Shah Mansoor.

He is also serving as a member of Iman Islamic Banking's Shariah Board and Head of Shariah Compliance Department at Silkbank Limited. Since 2006, he has been teaching various Islamic subjects at some of the leading Islamic educational institutions in Pakistan. He has served as the Chairman of the Think Tank. He has also served as the Director of the Faculty of Sharia at Jamia tur Rasheed, Karachi (which offers a four-year postgraduate degree program).[4] He is currently a Shariah advisor to a well-known Islamic bank. Prior to that, he was a Shariah Trainer (2008 to 2011) at Dubai Islamic Bank Pakistan Limited. He is a regular columnist for a popular weekly magazine.[1]

Kakakhail is the recipient of the Presidential Award for "Best Debator of Pakistan". He is a well-known speaker throughout Pakistan who has lectured at various conferences, seminars, symposia and public gatherings by national universities such as Fast University Lahore, Kohat University of Science and Technology, International Islamic University, Islamabad and chambers of commerce and bar associations.[5][6] Over the years, he has participated in many live and recorded programs of various popular Pakistani TV channels as a panel discussion and in programs, including Dunya News and Dunya Kamran Khan Kay Sath, and Samaa TV News Beat.

Kakakhail has authored several publications on various Shariah-related topics. He has also written more than 200 articles that have been published in leading magazines and newspapers.[7]