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The Peshawar High Court (PHC, Urdu: عدالتِ عالیہ پشاور) is the provincial and highest judicial institution of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. It is located in the provincial capital Peshawar .
In 1985 the Lahore High Court had Benches at Bahawalpur, Multan and Rawalpindi; the High Court of Sind at Sukkur; the Peshawar High Court at Abbottabad and Dera Ismail Khan and the High Court of Baluchistan at Sibi. [8] In 2007, the government proposed a fifth high court to cover the Islamabad Capital Territory. [9]
The Calcutta High Court is the oldest high court in the country, brought into existence on 14 May 1862. [2] High courts that handle numerous cases of a particular region have permanent benches established there. Benches are also present in states which come under the jurisdiction of a court outside its territorial limits.
He obtained the license to practice law in lower courts in 1999 and for the high court and Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2001 and 2014, respectively. [2]Initially appointed as an additional judge in the PHC on 19 August 2019, Anwar was sworn in as a confirmed judge of the PHC on 5 August 2021.
The Supreme Court building on Constitution Avenue, Islamabad. The Supreme Court of Pakistan is the highest and apex court in the judicial hierarchy of Pakistan. [1] Its judicial membership currently composed of the Chief Justice of Pakistan and fifteen senior justices, also consisting the ad hoc appointments of the Shariat Appellate. [2]
He became an advocate of the high court in 2006. Initially serving as an additional advocate general (AAG) in the first Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2013, he resumed the AAG role after the formation of the second PTI government in 2018. He actively represented the government in various significant cases. [2]
He remained member Peshawar High Court Bar Association and member of Peshawar Bar Association, District Courts. As an advocate, he specialized representing banks, hospitals, and universities. He joined Peshawar High Court (PHC) as an additional judge on 16 June 2017. [1] [2] He became permanent member of the PHC bench on 31 May 2019. [3]
Waqar Ahmed Seth (16 March 1961 – 12 November 2020) was a Pakistani jurist who was the Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court between June 2018 and November 2020. [1] He presided over the special court which heard the high treason case against Pervez Musharraf and one of the two judges on a three-judge panel who convicted Musharraf of this crime and sentenced him to death in a controversial ...