The newly constituted Particular Parliamentary Committee on Tuesday nominated Justice Yahya Afridi, third on the seniority checklist, as the following chief justice of Pakistan.
The committee, comprising members from the opposition and treasury benches, was fashioned to appoint the following chief justice from among the many three most senior Supreme Courtroom judges beneath the not too long ago enacted twenty sixth Constitutional Modification.
Beneath the earlier regulation, incumbent CJP Qazi Faez Isa would have been mechanically changed by the senior puisne choose — Justice Mansoor Ali Shah.
Nonetheless, the strategy has been modified following the enactment of the contentious twenty sixth Constitutional Modification Invoice.
Beneath amendments to clause 3 of Article 175A, the highest choose will now 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 consists of senators Azam Nazeer Tarar from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN), Farooq H Naek from Pakistan Peoples Get together (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 embrace 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 in step with the social gathering’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 nearly all 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 beneath clause 3 after graduation of the Structure (Twenty-sixth) Act 2024 can be despatched inside three days previous to retirement of the chief justice.
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 convention of public service.
He obtained his early schooling at Aitchison Faculty, Lahore. He went on to earn his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from Authorities Faculty 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 Faculty 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 follow in Peshawar and lectured at Khyber Legislation Faculty, 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 Normal for the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and as a Federal Counsel for the Authorities of Pakistan whereas in follow.
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 turned the primary choose 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.