| History and Biodata |
2. Previous Functions Zaman Sangari:
Chief Judge of the CJTF Primary Court (20110605)
nominated Member of Supreme Court (20160404)
Member of Supreme Court confirmed (20160621)
3. Biodata:
 Mohammad Zaman Sangari, son of Sangar Khan, was born in 1954 in Kunar Province. He received his BA from the Sharia Faculty of Kabul University in 1358 (1979/80). After that, Sangari served in various positions with various Afghan courts from 1981 onwards. This included work as a trainer with a civil court in Farah (1981-82), as a judge with the commercial court at the Supreme Court in Kabul (1982-85), as a judge with the Kabul Family Court (1985-91), as the Head of the primary court of district 11 in Kabul (1991-93), as a member of Kabul’s commercial court (in 1993). There is no information available about his career during the years of the Taleban emirate. After that, he became head of the Primary Court of the 1st district in Kabul (2001-05) and counsellor at the Criminal Court of the Supreme Court (2005-09) and director of Inspections of the Supreme Court. His last job before his nomination for the High Council of the Supreme Court was head of the Anti-Narcotics Primary Court of Kabul (since 2009). Prof. Mohammad Zaman Sangari, who received higher education in political science, has enough judicial knowledge and experience.
Sangari is largely considered a non-controversial candidate.The Wolesi Jirga MPs decided to postpone the vote on Sangari, as he had been introduced and they wanted more time to review his documents and credentials.(20160409) he Wolesi Jirga on Monday approved Mohammad Zaman Sangari as member of the Supreme Court.
In line with the constitutional requirement, Sangari was introduced to the lower house for a vote of confidence.
Of the 224 lawmakers present, 132 voted for Sangari. He needed a minimum of 113 ballots to win the apex court membership.
He can speak Dari, Pashto and is familiar with Arabic and English languages as well.
Background:
The last full-fledged office-holder, Muhammad Eshaq Alko, Aloko, Aleko was endorsed by a Wolesi Jirga vote on 31 August 2008, one and half years before Karzai’s second term. He continued in this job throughout Karzai’s entire second presidential term without ever taking a renewed vote of confidence. On 23 June 2011, Alko was voted out of office after he had ignored several calls from the Wolesi Jirga to come to report to them. He had in particular earned the MPs’ aversion by stressing that he would implement the decision of the Special Electoral Court (SEC), established by Karzai after massive irregularities and a multitude of complaints in the September 2010 parliamentary election. The SEC’s decision cost a number of MPs that were initially declared winners their seats. on 6 December 2014, two months after the NUG was formed, Alko, resigned from his job. His deputy, Nur Habib Jalal, became acting Attorney General until President Ghani appointed Farid Hamidi, the current candidate, into this position on 24 February 2016. |