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Asif Saeed Khan Khosa

Modern Constitutional and Supreme Court Judges of Asia and Oceania

Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, born 1954 in Dera Ghazi Khan, is a Pakistani jurist who served as the twenty-sixth Chief Justice of Pakistan in 2019. As a Supreme Court justice he sat on benches that disqualified prime ministers Yousuf Raza Gillani and Nawaz Sharif from office, and during his own tenure as Chief Justice he oversaw the nullification of a government extension for the army chief and the treason case that sentenced former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death.

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  • Introduction, gender
    He joined the Supreme Court as a judge on 18 February 2010 and prior to that served as judge of the Lahore High Court.
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    Asif Saeed Khan Khosa (Urdu: آصف سعید خان کھوسہ; born 21 December 1954) is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 26th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 18 January 2019 to 20 December 2019.
  • Full article, field of law
    He was then admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge and did his Master of Laws with specialization in Public International Law.
  • In Legal System: Law of Pakistan, Wikipedia lead sentence
    is a Pakistani jurist who served as the
  • Member Of: Supreme Court of Pakistan, Wikipedia category: Justices of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
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Asif Saeed Khan Khosa (Urdu: آصف سعید خان کھوسہ; born 21 December 1954) is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 26th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 18 January 2019 to 20 December 2019.
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