Akhtar Hussain (lawyer)

As a student, Hussain joined the National Students Federation (NSF) in the 1963 when he got admission in Islamia College, Karachi. In 1971, he was elected as the President of Islamia College's Students Union and Vice President of NSF.^[21] He started his practical politics with the National Awami Party, once it was banned, he was the Deputy General Secretary and Central Committee member of the National Democratic Party and Pakistan National Party Sindh. In 1967-77, together with Dr. M. R. Ihsan, Lal Bakhsh Rind other colleagues, he formed the Communist League. In 1988, he was the Deputy General Secretary of the Pakistan Workers Party which was formed by the merger of the Communist League and the Socialist Party headed by Mr. Abid Hasan Manto. In 1992, the Pakistan Workers Party, Qaumi Mahaaz Azadi, and the Qaumi Inqalabi Party merged to form the Awami Jamhoori Party. In 1999, the National Workers Party^[22] was formed by the merger of Awami Jamhoori Party, Pakistan National Party and Pakistan Socialist Party (C.R Aslam), and in 2010, the Workers Party Pakistan was formed^[23] by the merger of the National Workers Party and the Communist Mazdoor Kisan Party respectively.

Hussain served as the General Secretary of Awami Jamhoori Party, Workers Party Pakistan^[24] and later Awami Workers Party formed in 2012^{[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]} by merger of Workers Party, Awami Party Pakistan and Labor Party Pakistan. In March 2022, he was elected as senior vice president of Awami Workers Party^[35] but after the death of Yousuf Mustikhan in Sep 2022,^[36] he was elected as president.^[2] Hussain was incarcerated in the Central Prison Karachi in 1984, for struggle for democracy against Zia's martial law and then again in 2007 for independence of the judiciary under Pervez Musharraf's martial law.^[22]

In 2021, Hussain published a book in Urdu: "Samaji Tabdeeli Ki Siyasat" (politics of social change).^[37][38]