Supreme Court Justice Yahya Afridi was nominated as the Chief Justice by a special parliamentary committee with a two-thirds majority.
Supreme Court Judge Justice Yahya Afridi was born on January 23, 1965 in Dera Ismail Khan, received his primary education from Aitchison College Lahore, graduated from Government College Lahore and obtained MA Economics degree from Punjab University Lahore.
He also obtained an LLM from Jesus College Cambridge University on a Commonwealth Scholarship. Justice Yahya Afridi started practice as a High Court Advocate in 1990 and in 2004 as Supreme Court Advocate.
The Parliamentary Committee nominated Justice Yahya Afridi as the Chief Justice Justice Yahya Afridi also served as Assistant Advocate General for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Appointed Additional Judge of Peshawar High Court in 2010, he was appointed as Permanent Judge on 15 March 2012. On December 30, 2016, Justice Yahya Afridi took oath as the Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court.
Appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 28 June 2018. Justice Yahya Afridi heard various cases in the Supreme Court, was a part of the larger bench in the case related to the specific seats of the Sunni Unity Council and also wrote his dissenting note in the judgment related to the case.
Justice Yahya Afridi was also part of the 9-member larger bench of the Supreme Court on the presidential reference against the execution of former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
Justice Yahya Afridi had declined to join the three-member judges committee of the Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Ordinance 2024.
