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Pakistan’s first woman chief justice of the high court

July 28 , 2018 2312 days 1342 0
  • Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar named Justice Tahira Safdar as the Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court.
  • With this, she became the first-ever woman chief justice of a high court of Pakistan.
  • She made history in 1982 when she became the first woman civil judge in Balochistan.
  • Justice Tahira is currently also a member of the three-judge special court conducting the trial of former president Pervez Musharraf for committing treason by proclaiming a state of emergency on November 3, 2007.

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