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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 .
Waqar Ahmed Khan (Urdu: وقار احمد خان, born 20 March 1974), is a Pakistani jurist currently holding the position of Justice in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) since 19 August 2019. [ 1 ] Career
He served as the president of the District Bar Association and the general secretary of the Peshawar High Court Bar Association from 2002 to 2003. He was a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council in 2004 and held the position of president of the Peshawar High Court Bar Association multiple times in 2006–07, 2009–10, and 2010–11 ...
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.
As the province of West Pakistan was dissolved in 1970, three high courts were established: Lahore High Court, Peshawar High Court, and Sind and Balochistan High Court (with its principal seat at Karachi). [6] In 1976 the Sindh and Balochistan High Court was split into the High Court of Sind (Karachi) and the High Court of Balochistan (Quetta). [7]
The academy was founded in March 2011 by the Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court, Justice Dost Muhammad Khan, after consultation with former director general (Hayat Ali Shah) and former dean of the faculty (Dr. Khursheed Iqbal). The governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa established the academy with an ordinance issued on 28 December 2011.
He also served as President of the Peshawar High Court Bar Association from 2013 to 2014. [2] He was appointed as an additional Justice of the Peshawar High Court on 12 August 2016. [5] On 1 June 2018, he took oath as the permanent judge of the PHC. [3] On 13 April 2024, he was appointed as acting Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court. [6]
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