Sayed Yousuf Halim

Sayed Yousuf Halim (1959 – 17 October 2022) was an Afghan judge. He was chief justice of Afghanistan from 2015 to 2021.

Sayed Yousuf Halim
Chief Justice of Afghanistan
In office 27 July 2015 – 15 August 2021
President	Ashraf Ghani
Preceded by	Abdul Salam Azimi
Succeeded by	Abdul Hakim Haqqani
Acting Minister of Justice
In office 20 March 2014 – 18 April 2015
President	Hamid Karzai Ashraf Ghani
Preceded by	Habibullah Ghaleb
Succeeded by	Abdul Baseer Anwar
Deputy Minister of Justice for Legal Affairs
In office 2010–2014
President	Hamid Karzai
Deputy Minister of Justice for Administrative Affairs
In office 2009–2010
President	Hamid Karzai
Personal details
Born	1959 (1959) Nangahar Province, Kingdom of Afghanistan
Died	17 October 2022(2022-10-17) (aged 62–63) Emirates' Humanitarian City, Abu Dhabi
Alma mater	Kabul University (BA)

Biography

Halim 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.^[1]

He was appointed acting Justice Minister by President Hamid Karzai in 2014 then Chief Justice by President Ashraf Ghani on 27 July 2015.^[2]

Halim went into exile in August 2021 after the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.^[3] He died after suffering a heart attack in the Emirates' Humanitarian City in Abu Dhabi,^[4] whilst in a mosque performing evening prayer.^[5]