Islamabad: Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan on Monday took oath as top court judge.
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa administrated the oath.
Last week, then president Dr Arif Alvi approved the appointment of Justice Afghan, who was serving as Balochistan High Court chief justice, to the country's top court under Article 175(A) of the Constitution.
Born in 1963, Justice Afghan is the son of a retired government servant and holds a degree in Economics and Statistics and an LLB from Degree College Quetta and University Law College Quetta, respectively.
Enrolled as an advocate of BHC in 1989 and an advocate of the SC in 2001.
As per the judge's profile on the SC website, Afghan “practised law for 21 years before the subordinate courts, BHC, Federal Shariat Court and the apex court during which he conducted innumerable criminal, civil, and constitutional cases which have been reported in law journals.”
In 2011, he was elevated as an Additional Judge of the BHC followed by his appointment as a judge in 2012 and eventually as the province’s top court’s chief justice in 2021.