LAHORE (Dunya News) – Justice Yahya Afridi has been nominated as the next chief justice of Pakistan by the parliamentary committee by a two-thirds majority.
Let's have a look at his career.
Justice Yahya Afridi was born on Jan 23, 1965 in Dera Ghazi Khan. He completed his early education at Aitchison College, Lahore, and graduated from Government College, Lahore.
He earned an MA in Economics from Punjab University, Lahore, and later obtained an LLM degree from Jesus College, Cambridge University, under a Commonwealth scholarship.
Justice Afridi began his legal career in 1990 as a lawyer in the high court and started practicing as a Supreme Court lawyer in 2004. He also served as the assistant advocate general for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In 2010, he was appointed as an additional judge of the Peshawar High Court and became a permanent judge on March 15, 2012. On Dec 30, 2016, he took the oath as Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court and was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on June 28, 2018.
Throughout his career, Justice Afridi has presided over various cases in the superior judiciary, including being part of a larger bench concerning the reserved seats of the Sunni Ittehad Council, where he also penned a dissenting note in the judgement.
Additionally, he was a member of the nine-member larger bench of the Supreme Court addressing the presidential reference against the execution of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Recently, Justice Yahya Afridi declined to be part of the three-member judges' committee for the Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Ordinance 2024.