Hon’ble Mr. Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi is a descendent of a famous Pashtun tribe “Kasi” settled in Quetta and around since ages. Born in an educated business family on 28th November 1956, he received his early education from Tameer-Nau Public School Quetta. After doing his FSc from Government Science College Quetta in 1975, he did his graduation from the University of Baluchistan in 1978. Thereafter he received his Masters degree in Economics in 1st Division and LLB from Baluchistan University in 1980-81. He was enrolled as an advocate in 1982. After practicing law as an advocate for four years, he joined the judicial service of Baluchistan as a Civil Judge in May, 1986. Besides working as a Civil Judge on various stations, he worked as a Section Officer (Solicitor) Law Department, Government of Baluchistan. He was appointed as an Additional District and Sessions Judge in 1991 and was promoted as District and Sessions Judge in 1997. He worked as District and Sessions Judge in the remote tribal areas i.e Nasirabad, Dera Muraad Jamali, Sibi, Noshki, Kharan, Musakhail, Pishin, Zhob, Chaman and Quetta. He also served as a Member Industrial Relations Commission Islamabad 1999, Judge Accountability Court No.1 Baluchistan from 2000 to 2003, Judge Anti Corruption Court 2009 and Member Baluchistan Services Tribunal from 2009 / 2010. He was elevated as Judge of the Islamabad High Court on 4th January 2011. He gained vast experiences in all the disciplines of law i.e criminal, civil, revenue, customs and service.
2. In his career as a Judge, he received his professional training from Federal Judicial Academy Islamabad in 1999. He participated in various conferences and workshops which include “First Judicial conference” held in Quetta 2002, Workshop on “Citizen Court Liaison” held in Federal Judicial Academy Islamabad 2003, Workshop on “Pakistan Environmental Protection Act 1997” in Quetta 2003, Workshop on “Judicial Ethics” 2004 and Workshop on “International Mechanism for protection of Human Rights of Refugees and bonded labor” 2004. He had also been a sports man in the field of hiking, hunting and riding. Besides his native language, he is fluent in almost all the local languages of Pakistan i.e Brahvi, Balochi, Sindhi, Persian and Punjabi.
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