Sayed Yousuf Halim (1959 – 17 October 2022) was an Afghan judge. He was
chief justice of Afghanistan
The chief justice of Afghanistan is the head of Afghanistan's supreme court. There have been multiple supreme courts throughout Afghanistan's history. The current supreme court is the Supreme Court of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and its ...
from 2015 to 2021.
He was born in 1959 in
Nangahar Province. He worked for justice ministry from 1985. He became Deputy Minister of Justice for Administrative Affairs in 2009 then has been Deputy Minister of Justice for Legal Affairs from 2010 to 2014.
He has been appointed as acting Justice Minister by President
Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repub ...
in 2014 then Chief Justice by President
Ashraf Ghani
Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan politician, academic, and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014 until August 2021, when his government was overthrown by the Taliban.
Born in ...
on 27 July 2015.
He went into exile after in August 2021 after
2021 Taliban offensive
A military offensive by the Taliban insurgent group and other allied militants led to the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan based in Kabul and marked the end of the nearly 20-year-old War in Afghanistan, that had begun following the ...
.
He died in the Emirates' Humanitarian City in Abu Dhabi after a heart attack when he was in a mosque for performing evening prayer.
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1959 births
2022 deaths
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