Faisal Ahmad Shinwari

Faisal Ahmad Shinwari
Faisal Ahmad Shinwari, December 2004
Born	1927 (age 89–90) Shinwar, Afghanistan
Died	February 21, 2011 India
Cause of death	Stroke
Nationality	Afghan
Other names	Fazl Hadi Shinwari
Citizenship	Afghanistan
Occupation	Islamic cleric
Known for	Chief Justice Supreme Court of Afghanistan, 2001–2006
Home town	Jalalabad

Faisal Ahmad Shinwari (or Fazal Hadi Shinwari) (1927 – February 21, 2011) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan from 2001 until 2006. He was appointed to the post by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in accordance with the Afghan Constitution approved after the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government. An ethnic Pashtun from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Shinwari died in February 2011 from stroke, he was a member of the Ittehad-al-Islami party.

Shinwari was born in the Haska Mina village of Shinwar in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. He completed Islamic studies in Kabul and became a teacher at Ibn-i-Sina High School in 1954. A few years later he moved to Nangarhar and in 1974 he migrated to neighboring Pakistan. In 2002, Shinwari was appointed Chief Justice by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

In 2003 Shinwari spoke out against co-education—the education of boys and girls in shared facilities—while clarifying that he did not object to the education of girls and women in principle, just not in facilities shared with men and boys. Shinwari also led the Supreme Court's efforts to ban Cable TV.

According to Eurasianet Shinwari was responsible for re-instating the ministry formerly known as the "Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice".