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| Pashto: د افغانستان لوی څارنوال Dari: قاضی ارشد افغانستان | |
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| Supreme Court of Afghanistan | |
| Member of | Leadership Council |
| Reports to | Leadership |
| Seat | Kabul |
| Appointer | Supreme Leader |
| Deputy | Deputy Chief Justice |
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The chief justice of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان لوی څارنوال; Dari: قاضی ارشد افغانستان) is the head of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan. The current chief justice is Abdul Hakim Haqqani, who is a founding member of the Taliban.
List of chief justices
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Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (until 1992)
[edit]Supreme Court of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)
[edit]- Abdul Satar Sanaie[3]
- Noor Mohammad Saqib
Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2001–2021)
[edit]- Fazal Hadi Shinwari (December 2001 – May 2006), was a member of the Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan
- Abdul Salam Azimi (5 August 2006 – 23 October 2014), a former professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha in the United States
- Sayed Yousuf Halim (27 July 2015 – 15 August 2021), former Deputy Minister of Justice for Technical Affairs (and Acting Minister of Justice), Deputy Minister for Administrative Affairs, and Head of the Ministry of Justice's General Legislative Department[4]
Supreme Court of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (2021–present)
[edit]- Abdul Hakim Haqqani (15 August 2021 – present)
References
[edit]- ^ Johnson, Thomas H.; Adamec, Ludwig W. (2021-05-15). Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-4929-4.
- ^ "Human rights defenders in Afghanistan: Civil society destroyed" (PDF). Amnesty International. 1 Nov 1999.
- ^ "Refworld | Afghanistan: Declaration of Amnesties and Invitation to Afghan Refugees to Repatriate". Refworld. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "The Supreme Court Chief Justice Biography - the Supreme Court". Archived from the original on 2015-10-03. Retrieved 2015-09-21.
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