Justice Musarrat Hilali has taken oath as the first woman chief justice of the Peshawar High Court.
On Wednesday, President Dr Arif Alvi approved the appointment of Justice Musarrat Hilali as the Chief Justice of the PHC. Justice Hilali will act as the PHC chief justice from April 1 till the appointment of a regular chief justice on the recommendation of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP). However, Chief Justice of Pakistan Umer Ata Bandial has yet to summon a JCP meeting over the matter.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Haji Ghulam Ali administered an oath to her.
According to her profile information given on the website of the Peshawar High Court, Justice Mussarat Hilali received her law degree from Khyber Law College Peshawar University and enrolled as an advocate of district courts in 1983; as an advocate of the high court in 1988 and enrolled as an advocate of Supreme Court of Pakistan in 2006.
She was also the first woman additional advocate general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa when she resumed the charge in November 2001 which lasted until March 2004. She was also the first woman appointed as Chairperson Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Environmental Protection Tribunal.
In 2018, Justice Tahira Safdar became the first woman in Pakistan to take charge as a high court chief justice when she was nominated by then-chief justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar as chief justice of the Balochistan High Court.
