Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR (AJK), (Parliament Times) : Azad government of the State of Jammu & Kashmir has appointed seasoned legal expert and former judge of the High Court of AJK Mr, Khalid Yousaf Advocate as the Custodian of the Evacuee property under the control of the State government, it was officially announced.
“In exercise of the powers conferred by sub section (1) of section 6 of the Pakistan (Administration of Evacuee Property) Act. 1957 (Act XII of 1957), as in force in Azad Jammu Kashmir read with sub rule (1) of rule 3 of the Azad Jammu Kashmir Custodian of Evacuee Property(AT C & S) Rules 2021, AJK, in consultation with Chief Justice of Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Chief Justice of the High Court of AJK, has been pleased to appoint Chaudhry Khalid Yousaf Advocate as Custodian of Evacuee Property for whole of Azad Jammu & Kashmir:, said an official notification issued late Monday by the Board of Revenue of Azad Government of the State of Jammu & Kashmir.
“This notification shall take immediate effect”, it added.
Our Special AJK Correspondent Altaf Hamid Rao reports from Mirpur that the newly-appointed Custodian of the Evacuee Property in AJK Ch. Khalid Yousaf Advocate of the Supreme Court of Azad Jammu Kashmir, has long distinguished career in the legal field holding various important slots including as judge of the High Court of AJK from 23rd of May 2018 – the office he performed for the period of two years.
Earlier also served as President of District Bar Association Mirpur in 2009-10.
Born on 16th of June 1969 in Mirpur AJK, Khalid completed his secondary and higher secondary education besides doing graduation respectively in 1984, 1986 and 1988 from local high school and Government Degree College in the lake-view city of Mirpur AJK.
He did his graduation in law (LLB) from the University of Punjab in 1995, joined legal profession in 1995 as pleader and completed one year correspondence course on study of the Holy Quran from International Islamic university, Islamabad in the year of 1996.
On successfully qualifying for required criteria to emerge as the practicing lawyer, Khalid Yousaf was enrolled as an Advocate of High court of on 20th of June 1998 and later as an advocate of Supreme Court on September 22, 2004.
He was elected as Joint Secretary of District Bar Association Mirpur AJK in 1996 and later elected as general secretary of the Mirur DBA in t 2001.
He was appointed as Standing counsel for district courts on behalf of government of AJK on 10th of December 2001. He also performed as Assistant Advocate General of AJK on January 17 in 2007 where served for two years. He also served as legal advisor of Mirpur Development Authority in November 2008.
Khalid Yousaf Advocate also served as member AJK bar council for the period of five years. He also remained chairman for several of committees and also served as chairman executive committee of bar council. He also served as general secretary of ajk high court bar association and as general secretary of AJK Supreme Court bar association of AJK.
He has also the distinction to service as Chairman of Mirpur District Environmental Lawyers Forum – the office he was holding so far since past many years on the move of the state-run Environmental Protection Agency of Azad Jammu Kashmir government.
During his long distinguished career as a practicing lawyer, Khalid Yousaf Advocate appeared before the courts of civil and criminal jurisdiction including banking and accountability courts, besides from the subordinate judiciary to the apex Supreme Court of AJK with the civil, criminal revenue cases.