Sayed Yousuf Halim (1959 – 17 October 2022) was an Afghan judge. He was chief justice of Afghanistan from 2015 to 2021. He was born in 1959 in Nangahar Province. He worked for the justice ministry from 1985. He became Deputy Minister of Justice for Administrative Affairs in 2009 and Deputy Minister of Justice for Legal Affairs from 2010 to 2014. He was appointed acting Justice Minister by President

Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai (born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan politician who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014, including as the first president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2004 to 2014. He previously served a ...

in 2014 then Chief Justice by President

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on 27 July 2015. He went into exile in August 2021 after the

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. 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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