Yahya Afridi (born 23 January 1965 in Dera Ismail Khan) has served as the thirtieth Chief Justice of Pakistan since 26 October 2024, the first Chief Justice appointed under the twenty sixth constitutional amendment through a special parliamentary committee process. He served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 2018 and earlier as Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court from 2016 to 2018, having joined that court as a justice in 2010. Educated at Aitchison College, Government College University Lahore, and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he earned a Master of Laws in 1990, he is noted as the first Chief Justice with family roots in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Yahya Afridi is a Pakistani jurist and currently serving as the chief justice of Pakistan since 26 October 2024. He previously served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan since 28 June 2018. Prior to his elevation to the Supreme Court, Afridi served as chief justice of the Peshawar High Court from 2016 to 2018, and as a justice of the PHC from 2010 to 2016. Early in his career he worked as a private lawyer, enrolling in various provincial and federal level legal posts. Afridi is the first Chief Justice of two Apex Courts having family roots in those areas of present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that were once the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. He is also the first chief justice to be appointed under the articles of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, being nominated by a Special Parliamentary Committee on 22 October 2024.
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