Justice Yahya Afridi — a short profile

Supreme Court judge Justice Yahya Afridi. — SC website
Supreme Court docket decide Justice Yahya Afridi. — SC web site   

Justice Yahya Afridi, third on the seniority listing, has been nominated by the newly constituted Particular Parliamentary Committee as the subsequent chief justice of Pakistan.

Justice Afridi was born in Dera Ismail Khan on twenty third January 1965. He belongs to the Adam Khel part of the Afridi tribe positioned within the Kohat Frontier Area and is a resident of Village Babari Banda, District Kohat. He belongs to a household steeped in a convention of public service.

He acquired his early training at Aitchison School, Lahore. He went on to earn his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from Authorities School Lahore and later obtained his Masters of Arts diploma in Economics from Punjab College, Lahore.

After being awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship, Justice Afridi accomplished his LL.M. from Jesus School on the College of Cambridge. He was subsequently chosen for a scholarship program for Younger Commonwealth Legal professionals on the Institute of Authorized Research in London.

He began his non-public observe in Peshawar and lectured at Khyber Regulation School, College of Peshawar the place he taught Worldwide Regulation, Labour Regulation and Administrative Regulation.

He was enrolled as an advocate of the Excessive Court docket in 1990 and as an advocate of the Supreme Court docket in 2004. He served as an Assistant Advocate Common for the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and as a Federal Counsel for the Authorities of Pakistan whereas in observe.

Afridi was elevated to the Bench of the Peshawar Excessive Court docket as Further Choose in 2010 and was confirmed as a Choose of the Peshawar Excessive Court docket on fifteenth March 2012.

Justice Afridi grew to become the primary decide from the Federally Administered Tribal Space to imagine the workplace of the Chief Justice of the Peshawar Excessive Court docket when he took oath on thirtieth December 2016. He served in that workplace till his elevation as a Choose of the Supreme Court docket of Pakistan on twenty eighth June 2018.

Following the enactment of the twenty sixth Constitutional Modification, the newly constituted Particular Parliamentary Committee on Tuesday (at the moment) nominated Justice Afridi, third on the seniority listing, as the subsequent chief justice of Pakistan.

Underneath the earlier legislation, incumbent CJP Qazi Faez Isa would have been robotically changed by the senior puisne decide — Justice Mansoor Ali Shah.

Nonetheless, the tactic has been modified following the enactment of the contentious twenty sixth Constitutional Modification Invoice.

Underneath amendments to clause 3 of Article 175A, the highest decide will now be “appointed on the advice of the Particular Parliamentary Committee from amongst the three most senior judges of Supreme Court docket” with two-thirds majority.

The committee consists of senators Azam Nazeer Tarar from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN), Farooq H Naek from Pakistan Peoples Occasion (PPP), Syed Ali Zafar from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and Kamran Murtaza from Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F).

In the meantime, members of the NA from PML-N embody Khawaja Asif, Ahsan Iqbal and Shaista Parvez; Raana Ansar from Muttahida Qaumi Motion-Pakistan (MQM-P), Syed Naveed Qamar and Raja Pervez Ashraf from PPP, and Barrister Gohar Ali Khan and Sahibzada Hamid Raza from the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC).

Nonetheless, the PTI-backed SIC members refused to attend the parliamentary panel’s assembly according to the occasion’s political committee choice.

It could be identified that the method for appointment of the brand new chief justice is required to be accomplished within the subsequent three days as incumbent CJP Isa goes to retire on October 25.

As per clause 3C of Article 175A, the committee by the vast majority of not lower than two-thirds of its complete membership, inside 14 days previous to retirement of the CJP would ship the nomination. Nonetheless, the primary nomination below clause 3 after graduation of the Structure (Twenty-sixth) Act 2024 can be despatched inside three days previous to retirement of the chief justice.