Islamabad (Pakistan News Online) Justice of Supreme Court Yahya Afridi has been nominated as the new Chief Justice by a special parliamentary committee with a two-thirds majority.
according to details, Supreme Court Judge, Justice Yahya Afridi was born on January 23, 1965 in Dera Ismail Khan.
He received his primary education from Aitchison College, Lahore, graduation from Government College Lahore and MA in Economics from Punjab University, Lahore.
He also received an LLM from Jesus College Cambridge University on a Commonwealth Scholarship.
Justice Yahya Afridi started practice as a High Court Advocate in 1990 and in 2004 as Supreme Court Advocate.
Justice Yahya Afridi also served as Assistant Advocate General for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Appointed Additional Judge of Peshawar High Court in 2010 and then was appointed as Permanent Judge on 15 March 2012.
according to Daily Pakistan, On December 30, 2016, Justice Yahya Afridi took oath as the Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court and Appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 28 June 2018.
Justice Yahya Afridi was a part of the larger bench in the hearing of various cases in the Supreme Court, in the case related to the specific seats of the Sunni Ittehad Council also wrote his dissenting note in the judgment related to the case.
Justice Yahya Afridi was also part of the 9-member larger bench of the Supreme Court on the presidential reference against the execution of former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
Justice Yahya Afridi had declined to join the three-member judges committee of the Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Ordinance 2024.