ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has appointed Justice Yahya Afridi as the subsequent Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), succeeding the present CJP, Qazi Faez Isa.
Justice Afridi will serve a hard and fast three-year time period beginning October 26, in response to an announcement issued from the Aiwan-e-Sadar on Wednesday morning.
The appointment was made in accordance with Articles 175A(3), 177, and 179 of the Structure, with Justice Afridi set to take the oath of workplace on October 26, the assertion added.
The nomination of the highest decide was made by the Particular Parliamentary Committee on Tuesday evening, constituted for the primary time within the nation’s historical past for the appointment of the CJP, with a two-thirds majority.
The committee despatched its advice for Yahya Afridi to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, which was later authorised by the president.
This methodology of appointing the nation’s prime decide has been adopted for the primary time after the enactment of the contentious twenty sixth Constitutional Modification Invoice, which means that the CJP might be “appointed on the advice of the Particular Parliamentary Committee from amongst the three most senior judges of Supreme Courtroom” with two-thirds majority.
The committee has participation from all of the political events in parliament, together with senators and members of Nationwide Meeting on each the opposition and treasury benches.
Nonetheless, the important thing opposition celebration, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), opted to not take part within the Particular Parliamentary Committee conferences.
The ruling coalition final week efficiently pushed by means of the extremely contentious judicial reforms by means of the Parliament by way of a two-thirds majority with 225 and 65 votes within the decrease and higher home, respectively.
The constitutional tweaks have been additionally opposed by the PTI, which has pledged to revoke the laws each time it returned to energy within the Centre, terming it an assault on the “independence” of judiciary.
The celebration has additionally introduced rejected the nomination of Justice Afridi as the subsequent CJP, vowing to launch a protest motion towards the Particular Parliamentary Committee’s resolution.
Who’s Justice Yahya Afridi?
Justice Afridi was born in Dera Ismail Khan on twenty third January 1965. He belongs to the Adam Khel part of the Afridi tribe situated within the Kohat Frontier Area and is a resident of Village Babari Banda, District Kohat. He belongs to a household steeped in a practice of public service.
He obtained 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 LLM from Jesus School on the College of Cambridge. He was subsequently chosen for a scholarship program for Younger Commonwealth Attorneys on the Institute of Authorized Research in London.
He began his non-public observe in Peshawar and lectured at Khyber Legislation School, College of Peshawar the place he taught Worldwide Legislation, Labour Legislation and Administrative Legislation.
He was enrolled as an advocate of the Excessive Courtroom in 1990 and as an advocate of the Supreme Courtroom in 2004. He served as an Assistant Advocate Basic 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 Courtroom as Extra Decide in 2010 and was confirmed as a Decide of the Peshawar Excessive Courtroom 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 Courtroom when he took oath on thirtieth December 2016. He served in that workplace till his elevation as a Decide of the Supreme Courtroom of Pakistan on twenty eighth June 2018.