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} The Chief Justice of Pakistan (Urdu: ) ( initials as CJP) is head of the court system of Pakistan (the judicature branch of
government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government i ...
) and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The officeholder is the senior most of 17 senior justices of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The Federal Court of Pakistan was established by Governor-General Jinnah's Order in February 1948. Until 1956, the chief justice and senior justices were known by the title of 'Federal Judge', and the Federal Court of Pakistan operated out of a wing of the Lahore High Court, despite the federal capital's location in
Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former c ...
. The enactment of Pakistan's first constitution in March 1956 redesigned it as the 'Supreme Court of Pakistan.' The chief justice is the chief administrative officer of the country's
court system A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accorda ...
and the highest judicial officer, ranking immediately above the chief justice of the Federal Shariat Court, and is responsible for supervising federal judicial policies, and conducting judicial business in the Supreme Court. Nomination for the appointment of the chief justice is made by the
prime minister of Pakistan The prime minister of Pakistan ( ur, , romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam , ) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and his chosen cabinet, despite the president of Pak ...
, and final appointments are confirmed by the president of Pakistan. Presiding over the oral arguments before the court, the chief justice has significant agenda-setting power over meetings of the Supreme Court. In modern tradition, the chief justice has the ceremonial duty of administering the oath of office of the president of Pakistan. The first chief justice was Sir Abdul Rashid. The current chief justice is Umar Ata Bandial; incumbent since 2 February 2022.


List of chief justices

Pakistan's longest-serving chief justice was Mohammad Haleem for total of 3,205 days. The shortest-serving chief justice was Muhammad Shahabuddin, who died in office 9 days after taking oath.
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ( ur, ; born 12 December 1948) is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 20th Chief Justice of Pakistan over three non-consecutive terms from 29 June 2005 to 11 December 2013. Chaudhry began practice as an advocate of ...
is the only justice to have served non-consecutive terms, for a total of three terms with total of 2,480 days. * A ''Acting'' * ± ''Recess appointment, later rejected by the
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. All decisions voided due to illegality of appointment.'' * † ''Died in office''


Timeline

ImageSize = width:800 height:auto barincrement:20 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:50 right:130 left:20 AlignBars = late DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/01/1949 till:30/12/2045 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:4 start:1949 Colors = id:app value:green legend: Appointed id:act value:red legend: Acting id:dee value:black legend: DeFacto Legend = columns:3 left:150 top:24 columnwidth:100 TextData = pos:(20,27) textcolor:black fontsize:M text:"Chief Justice:" BarData = barset:PM PlotData= width:5 align:left fontsize:S shift:(5,-4) anchor:till barset:PM from: 08/06/1949 till: 29/06/1954 color:app text:" Sir Mian Abdul Rashid" from: 30/06/1954 till: 02/05/1960 color:app text:" Muhammad Munir" from: 03/05/1960 till: 12/05/1960 color:app text:" Muhammad Shahabuddin" from: 13/05/1960 till: 29/02/1968 color:app text:"
A. R. Cornelius Alvin Robert Cornelius, HPk (8 May 1903 – 21 December 1991) was a Pakistani jurist, legal philosopher and judge, serving as the 4th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 1960 until 1968. In addition, he served as Law Minister in the cabinet of Yahya ...
" from: 01/03/1968 till: 03/06/1968 color:app text:" S. A. Rahman" from: 04/06/1968 till: 17/11/1968 color:app text:" Fazal Akbar" from: 18/11/1968 till: 31/10/1975 color:app text:" Hamoodur Rahman" from: 01/11/1975 till: 22/09/1977 color:app text:" Muhammad Yaqub Ali" from: 23/09/1977 till: 25/03/1981 color:app text:"
S. Anwarul Haq Chief Justice Sheikh Anwarul Haq (Punjabi and ur, شیخ انوار الحق‎; 11 May 1917 – 3 March 1995), was a Pakistani jurist and an academic who served as the 9th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 23 September 1977 until resigni ...
" from: 26/03/1981 till: 31/12/1989 color:app text:" Mohammad Haleem" from: 01/01/1990 till: 18/04/1993 color:app text:" Muhammad Afzal Zullah" from: 19/04/1993 till: 14/04/1994 color:app text:"
Nasim Hasan Shah Nasim Hasan Shah (Urdu: ) (15 April 1929 – 3 February 2015) was a Pakistani jurist and served as Chief Justice of Pakistan. He is best known for his role in the verdict against Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first democratically elected Prime Minis ...
" from: 16/04/1994 till: 04/06/1994 color:act text:" Saad Saud Jan" from: 05/06/1994 till: 02/12/1997 color:app text:"
Sajjad Ali Shah Sajjad Ali Shah (born 14 August 1957) is a Pakistani jurist who has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan since 15 March 2017. Previously, he served as the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court The High Court of Sindh ( ur ...
" from: 03/12/1997 till: 30/06/1999 color:app text:"
Ajmal Mian Ajmal Mian (Urdu : ) (4 July 1934 – 16 October 2017) was a Pakistani jurist who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 23 December 1997 to 30 June 1999. Early life and education Mian was born on 4 July 1934 ...
" from: 01/07/1999 till: 26/01/2000 color:app text:"
Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui Saeed Uz Zaman Siddiqui (Urdu: ; 1 December 1939 – 11 January 2017) (pronunciation 'sa'eed -uz- zam'an'; alternatively Saiduzzaman Siddiqui) was a Pakistani jurist and legislator of great prominence who formerly served as the 15th Chief Jus ...
" from: 27/01/2000 till: 06/01/2002 color:app text:" Irshad Hasan Khan" from: 07/01/2002 till: 31/01/2002 color:app text:" Bashir Jehangiri" from: 01/02/2002 till: 31/12/2003 color:app text:" Sheikh Riaz Ahmad" from: 01/01/2004 till: 29/06/2005 color:app text:" Nazim Hussain Siddiqui" from: 30/06/2005 till: 09/03/2007 color:app text:"
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ( ur, ; born 12 December 1948) is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 20th Chief Justice of Pakistan over three non-consecutive terms from 29 June 2005 to 11 December 2013. Chaudhry began practice as an advocate of ...
" from: 10/03/2007 till: 24/03/2007 color:act text:" Javaid Iqbal" from: 25/03/2007 till: 20/07/2007 color:act text:" Rana Bhagwandas" from: 21/07/2007 till: 03/12/2007 color:app text:"
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ( ur, ; born 12 December 1948) is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 20th Chief Justice of Pakistan over three non-consecutive terms from 29 June 2005 to 11 December 2013. Chaudhry began practice as an advocate of ...
" from: 04/12/2007 till: 21/03/2009 color:dee text:" Abdul Hameed Dogar" from: 21/03/2009 till: 11/12/2013 color:app text:"
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ( ur, ; born 12 December 1948) is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 20th Chief Justice of Pakistan over three non-consecutive terms from 29 June 2005 to 11 December 2013. Chaudhry began practice as an advocate of ...
" from: 13/12/2013 till: 05/07/2014 color:app text:" Tassadduq Hussain Jillani" from: 06/07/2014 till: 16/08/2015 color:app text:"
Nasir-ul-Mulk Nasirul Mulk ( ur, , born 17 August 1950) served as the seventh caretaker prime minister of Pakistan who previously also served as the 22nd chief justice of Pakistan. A jurist by profession, he was nominated as Chief Justice by the Pr ...
" from: 17/08/2015 till: 09/09/2015 color:app text:" Jawwad S. Khawaja" from: 10/09/2015 till: 30/12/2016 color:app text:"
Anwar Zaheer Jamali Anwar Zaheer Jamali ( ur, born 31 December 1951) is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 24th Chief Justice of Pakistan. He remained in the Supreme Court from 3 August 2009 to 30 December 2016. He has also served as the Acting Chief Election ...
" from: 31/12/2016 till: 17/01/2019 color:app text:" Mian Saqib Nisar" from: 18/01/2019 till: 20/12/2019 color:app text:"
Asif Saeed Khosa Asif Saeed Khan Khosa ( ur, ; born 21 December 1954) is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 26th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 18 January 2019 to 20 December 2019. He joined the Supreme Court as a judge on 18 February 2010 and prior to that s ...
" from: 21/12/2019 till: 01/02/2022 color:app text:" Gulzar Ahmed" from: 02/02/2022 till: 16/09/2023 color:app text:" Umar Ata Bandial" from: 17/09/2023 till: 25/10/2024 color:app text:"
Qazi Faez Isa Qazi Faez Isa ( ur, , born 26 October 1959) is a justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan since 5 September 2014. Previously, he served as Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court from 5 August 2009 to 5 September 2014. Early life and edu ...
" from: 26/10/2024 till: 04/08/2025 color:app text:" Ijazul Ahsan" from: 05/08/2025 till: 27/11/2027 color:app text:" Syed Mansoor Ali Shah" from: 28/11/2027 till: 13/12/2028 color:app text:" Munib Akhtar" from: 14/12/2028 till: 22/01/2030 color:app text:" Yahya Afridi"


See also

* Supreme Court of Pakistan * Pakistan Bar Council * Punjab Bar Council * Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan


References


External links


Supreme Court of Pakistan
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chief Justice Of Pakistan Judiciary of Pakistan List of Chief Justices of Supreme Court of Pakistan