Khalida Rashid Khan is a Pakistani judge who became the first female judge in the Superior Judiciary of Pakistan. She also served as the president of the

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Early life

She was born on 25 September 1949 in

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. Judge Khan obtained an LL.B. degree from Khyber Law College, Peshawar in 1969 and a Masters in Political Science degree from Peshawar University in 1971.

Career

She was inducted into the provincial Judiciary in 1974 of North West Frontier Province as a Civil

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. She then became a Senior Civil Judge, District and Sessions Judge and elevated as a judge of High Court Peshawar (Pakistan) in June 1994. She had also held many administrative positions, such as Registrar Peshawar High Court and Secretarial positions in the Justice and Law Department, NWFP. She is a member of the International Association of Women Judges,

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and attended many international conferences. She contributed a paper to the Asia/South Pacific Regional Judicial Colloquium in

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on 20 May 1996, under the heading "Women and Human Rights in the Asia/Pacific Region, A perspective from South Asia". She presented a paper on "Judicial Creativity in Action" in

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at the 6th Biennial Conference of International Association of Women Judges in May 2002. She has extensively worked to eradicate

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in Pakistan and

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Judge Rashid Khan is an international judge and was appointed as president of the

(ICTR) in 2011.

References

* 1949 births Living people Judges of the Peshawar High Court Hindkowan people Pakistani women judges International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda judges People from Peshawar Pakistani judges of United Nations courts and tribunals {{Pakistan-law-bio-stub