Abdul Salam Azimi

Abdul Salam Azimi (Pashtu:عبدالسلام عظیمی (born: 1936, in Farah Province) is the Chief Justice of Afghanistan. He is the Acting Head of the Afghan Supreme Court.[1] He is considered a moderate and wears western-style clothing including suits and ties.[2] Azimi is a former professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in the United States. He is an ethnic Pashtun of the Alizai tribe.

Abdul Salam Azimi in 2009

References
  1. "Message of Chief Justice". e-Government of Afghanistan. 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  2. Isobel Coleman, Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East (New York: Random House; Enfield: Publishers Group UK, 2013), p. 195



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