Halim was born in 1959 in
Nangahar Province. He worked for the justice ministry from 1985. He became Deputy Minister of Justice for Administrative Affairs in 2009 and Deputy Minister of Justice for Legal Affairs from 2010 to 2014. He was appointed acting Justice Minister by President
Hamid Karzai in 2014 then Chief Justice by President
Ashraf Ghani on 27 July 2015. Halim went into exile in August 2021 after the
2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. He died after suffering a heart attack in the Emirates' Humanitarian City in Abu Dhabi, whilst in a mosque performing evening prayer. == References ==