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Yahya Afridi
Yahya Afridi (Urdu: یحیٰ آفریدی; born 23 January 1965) 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 (Supreme Court and Peshawar High Court) 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.
Afridi was born on 23 January 1965 in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. He is a member of the Adamkhel Afridi tribe, with his family originally from Babari Banda village in Dara Adam Khel Tehsil (formerly the Frontier Region Kohat). He was educated in Lahore at Aitchison College, obtaining his O-and-A levels, before completing his Bachelor of Arts in political science and economics degree at Government College University, Lahore in 1985. Afridi obtained a Bachelor of Laws and Master of Arts in economics degrees in 1988 to 1989 from the University of the Punjab and the Punjab University Law College. After he acquired a Commonwealth Scholarship, Afridi received a Master of Laws at Jesus College, Cambridge University in 1990. In 1991 he was selected for the Commonwealth Young Lawyers Course at the Institute of Legal Studies, London. From 1991 to 2005 Afridi acted as a visiting professor in law at the Khyber Law College, University of Peshawar, teaching labour, international and administrative law.
Afridi's grandfather was Monowar Khan Afridi, who by partition was serving as a discretionary position of a Local Brigadier in the British Indian Army's Medical Corps and also a malariologist listed in the Munks Roll of the Royal College of Physicians. After Partition Monawar Afridi opted to join Pakistan Army and continued to serve the country in the health. Monawar was one of the founders of the health and medical education system in Pakistan, notably established Khyber Medical College in Peshawar while also serving as the vice-chancellor of Peshawar University.
From January 2013 to September 2013, he served on the Board of Governors of Aitchison College and from May to September 2013 as a member of the Peshawar University of Engineering & Technology Senate/Syndicate.
He interned at Fox & Gibbons in London before returning to Pakistan, where he became an Associate at Orr, Dignam & Co. in Karachi. While in private practice as a lawyer, Afridi enrolled as an Advocate of the High Court in 1991, three years later he became Assistant Advocate General for the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then NWFP). In 1995 he became Federal Counsel for the Government of Pakistan. In 2004 he enrolled as Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. From 1997 to 2012 he was a partner of Afridi, Shah & Minallah Law Firm, together with Mansoor Ali Shah and Athar Minallah.
In 2010 Afridi was elevated to the Peshawar High Court bench as an additional judge, and later confirmed as a permanent justice of the PHC on 15th March 2012. From 2011 to 2014 he served as Inspection Judge for several district courts and Chairman of Abbottabad and PHC enrollment committees from 2011 to 2014. From June 2010 to May 2013 Afridi was chairman of the KPK Labour Appellate Tribunal and in May 2013 became Chairman of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Subordinate Judiciary Service Tribunal.
He served as Company Judge for the Abbottabad Circuit Bench between 2011 and 2013 and continued as company judge in the Peshawar High Courts even after elevation to Chief Justice. In April 2011 Afridi became the head of the Automation Committee of the PHC and served as a member for several judicial committees, including; the SC's National Judicial Automation Committee, Committee for Enhancing Environmental Justice, and on the PHC Administrative Committee. In 2014, he became an administrative/monitoring judge in the Anti-Terrorism Courts and senior puisne judge.
On 30 December 2016, he took the oath as Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court, the first from FATA and the youngest CJ in the courts history. In Abid Ali VS The State etc (2018 PLD), Afridi ruled that the Prevention of Corruption Act of 1947, being person-specific, meant that a petitioner could not "absolve himself" of wrong-doing "on the mere ground that the said law has not been extended to FATA, where he was then serving." Determining the validity of anti-corruption laws in FATA/PATA.
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Yahya Afridi
Yahya Afridi (Urdu: یحیٰ آفریدی; born 23 January 1965) 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 (Supreme Court and Peshawar High Court) 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.
Afridi was born on 23 January 1965 in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. He is a member of the Adamkhel Afridi tribe, with his family originally from Babari Banda village in Dara Adam Khel Tehsil (formerly the Frontier Region Kohat). He was educated in Lahore at Aitchison College, obtaining his O-and-A levels, before completing his Bachelor of Arts in political science and economics degree at Government College University, Lahore in 1985. Afridi obtained a Bachelor of Laws and Master of Arts in economics degrees in 1988 to 1989 from the University of the Punjab and the Punjab University Law College. After he acquired a Commonwealth Scholarship, Afridi received a Master of Laws at Jesus College, Cambridge University in 1990. In 1991 he was selected for the Commonwealth Young Lawyers Course at the Institute of Legal Studies, London. From 1991 to 2005 Afridi acted as a visiting professor in law at the Khyber Law College, University of Peshawar, teaching labour, international and administrative law.
Afridi's grandfather was Monowar Khan Afridi, who by partition was serving as a discretionary position of a Local Brigadier in the British Indian Army's Medical Corps and also a malariologist listed in the Munks Roll of the Royal College of Physicians. After Partition Monawar Afridi opted to join Pakistan Army and continued to serve the country in the health. Monawar was one of the founders of the health and medical education system in Pakistan, notably established Khyber Medical College in Peshawar while also serving as the vice-chancellor of Peshawar University.
From January 2013 to September 2013, he served on the Board of Governors of Aitchison College and from May to September 2013 as a member of the Peshawar University of Engineering & Technology Senate/Syndicate.
He interned at Fox & Gibbons in London before returning to Pakistan, where he became an Associate at Orr, Dignam & Co. in Karachi. While in private practice as a lawyer, Afridi enrolled as an Advocate of the High Court in 1991, three years later he became Assistant Advocate General for the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then NWFP). In 1995 he became Federal Counsel for the Government of Pakistan. In 2004 he enrolled as Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. From 1997 to 2012 he was a partner of Afridi, Shah & Minallah Law Firm, together with Mansoor Ali Shah and Athar Minallah.
In 2010 Afridi was elevated to the Peshawar High Court bench as an additional judge, and later confirmed as a permanent justice of the PHC on 15th March 2012. From 2011 to 2014 he served as Inspection Judge for several district courts and Chairman of Abbottabad and PHC enrollment committees from 2011 to 2014. From June 2010 to May 2013 Afridi was chairman of the KPK Labour Appellate Tribunal and in May 2013 became Chairman of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Subordinate Judiciary Service Tribunal.
He served as Company Judge for the Abbottabad Circuit Bench between 2011 and 2013 and continued as company judge in the Peshawar High Courts even after elevation to Chief Justice. In April 2011 Afridi became the head of the Automation Committee of the PHC and served as a member for several judicial committees, including; the SC's National Judicial Automation Committee, Committee for Enhancing Environmental Justice, and on the PHC Administrative Committee. In 2014, he became an administrative/monitoring judge in the Anti-Terrorism Courts and senior puisne judge.
On 30 December 2016, he took the oath as Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court, the first from FATA and the youngest CJ in the courts history. In Abid Ali VS The State etc (2018 PLD), Afridi ruled that the Prevention of Corruption Act of 1947, being person-specific, meant that a petitioner could not "absolve himself" of wrong-doing "on the mere ground that the said law has not been extended to FATA, where he was then serving." Determining the validity of anti-corruption laws in FATA/PATA.
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