H.E. Judge Mohammad Qasim Halimi is the former Minister of Hajj and Religious Affairs in Afghanistan. He is a member of the National Council of Ulema. He is the founder and director of Quba Reform Foundation and has been and the co-founder and member of leading council of Eatidaal center, and Executive Board member of High Peace Council in Afghanistan. H.E. Halimi has a masters of Sharia and Law from the University of Arab States League in Cairo, Egypt. He graduated with a bachelors in Sharia and Law from Al Azhar University, H.E. Halimi is an active member of the International Union of the Al-Azhar University. H.E. Halimi was assigned as a Deputy Justice Minister of Technical and Professional Affairs in 2017. He was the former Advisor and Religious Affairs’ Director at the Office of National Security Council (ONSC), and a former Senior and Special Advisor for H.E. President Ghani concerning Islamic and Arab Countries’ Affairs from 2014-2015. He has worked as a Senior advisor for secretariat of Afghanistan peace and reconciliation program (APRP) and as a legal and conflict advisor at The Asia Foundation. He was also a former senior Advisor at the ministry of education. He has served as an asset involving different government and non-government sectors across Afghanistan including as a Judge on the Supreme Court.