{"id":53937,"date":"2024-10-26T13:19:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T08:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=53937"},"modified":"2024-10-26T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T14:31:08","slug":"justice-yahya-afridi-sworn-in-as-30th-chief-justice-of-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/justice-yahya-afridi-sworn-in-as-30th-chief-justice-of-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Yahya Afridi sworn in as 30th chief justice of Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"detail-heading\">\n<div class=\"except\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">ISLAMABAD: Justice Yahya Afridi was sworn in as the 30th <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/featured\/justice-yahya-afridi-appointed-as-30th-chief-justice-of-pakistan\/\">chief justice of Pakistan<\/a> on Saturday for a fixed three-year term, succeeding Justice Qazi Faez Isa, <\/span>who relinquished the charge yesterday (October 25).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"left\">\n<div class=\"story-area\">\n<div class=\"content-area\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/570928-justice-yahya-afridi-to-take-oath-as-chief-justice-of-pakistan-today\">\n<p>President Asif Ali Zardari administered the oath to the newly appointed top judge in a ceremony at the Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Yahya is the first to be appointed as the CJP following the enacted 26th Constitutional Amendment. He was nominated by a Special Parliamentary Committee (SPC) and approved by President Asif Ali Zardari under Articles 175A(3), 177, and 179 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-lg-8\">\n<div class=\"newsdetailcontent\">\n<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Chairman Senate Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz, the Federal Ministers, and the three Services Chiefs including COAS Asim Munir attended the oath-taking ceremony, along with fellow Supreme Court judges.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zdUn3KVW_94?si=kKBDusADMzoziQUM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Senior puisne judge Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, who would have become the CJP had the constitutional amendments not been in place, missed the event. He along with other judges including Justices Munib Akhtar, Ayesha Malik, and Athar Minallah skipped the full-court reference on the last day of CJP Afridi\u2019s predecessor\u00a0Justice Qazi Faez Isa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Moreover, former CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, Governor Sardar Saleem Haider, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and Governor Faisal Karim Kundi, alongside parliamentarians were also present in today&#8217;s ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Justice Yahya Afridi was sworn in as the 30th chief justice of Pakistan on Saturday for a fixed three-year term, succeeding Justice Qazi Faez Isa, who relinquished the charge yesterday (October 25). President Asif Ali Zardari administered the oath to the newly appointed top judge in a ceremony at the Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad. Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":53964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,2],"tags":[1649,17099],"class_list":["post-53937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","tag-chief-justice-of-pakistan","tag-justice-yahya-afridi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53966,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53937\/revisions\/53966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}