ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan nominated Chief Justice Yahya Afridi was born on 23 January 1965 in Dera Ismail Khan city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and received his primary education from Aitchison College Lahore.
Justice Yahya Afridi graduated from Govt College Lahore and MA in Economics from Punjab University Lahore and also obtained LLM from Jesus College Cambridge University on Commonwealth scholarship.
Justice Yahya Afridi started practice as High Court Advocate in 1990 and Supreme Court Advocate in 2004, serving as Assistant Advocate General for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Appointed as Judge in Peshawar High Court in 2010 and appointed as Additional Judge in Peshawar High Court, appointed as Permanent Judge of Peshawar High Court on 15 March 2012.
Later, on 30 December 2016, Justice Yahya Afridi took oath as the Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court and was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 28 June 2018.
Justice Yahya Afridi heard various and important cases in the Supreme Court, was part of the recent larger bench in the Sunni Ittehad Council reserved seat case and dissented from the 8-judge majority judgment and wrote notes.
Justice Yahya Afridi was also a part of the 9-member larger bench of the Supreme Court on the presidential reference against the execution of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, while the Supreme Court refused to join the three-member judges committee of the Practice and Procedure Ordinance 2024.
It should be remembered that Justice Yahya Afridi was also a petitioner in the Supreme Court against the imposition of emergency imposed on 3 November 2007.
Justice Yahya Afridi has been nominated as the 30th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court as per the new procedure introduced for the appointment of the Chief Justice under the 26th Constitutional Amendment.
Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Isa will retire on October 25 after completing his term.
