Justice Hilali was the author of the judgment which declares Section 10(2) of the Pakistan Citizenship Act, 1951, unconstitutional and discriminatory, under which the wife of a Pakistani national is entitled to the country’s citizenship, but the same is denied to the foreign husband of a Pakistani woman.
Her detailed profile can be found here.
She will be the first woman in Peshawar and the second in Pakistan to become a chief justice of a high court. The first in Pakistan was Justice r Tahira Safdar from Balochistan.