New CJ: Justice Nasirul Mulk to take oath on July 6
Justice Nasirul Mulk will replace Chief Justice Tassudaq Hussain Jillani, who will retire on July 5 after serving as top judge of the country for around seven months. Born on August 17, 1950, in Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Justice Nasirul Mulk is a barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple, London.
He was elected as secretary general, Peshawar High Court Bar Association in 1981.
Before his appointment as judge of the Peshawar High Court on June 4, 1994, he served as advocate general of NWFP (now renamed K-P) for one year. He was elevated as chief justice of Peshawar High Court on May 31, 2004 and as a Supreme Court judge on April 4, 2005.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 2nd, 2014.
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