Asmatullah Rohani is son of a prominent judge Hamdullah and he comes from Yousufzia tribe in eastern Kunar Province.
Background
His entire family is known as an intellectual family in eastern Kunar province because his father and his uncles were well educated and they have served as judges in several different provinces of Afghanistan. Asmatullah Rohani was born on August 3, 1937 in city of Balkh when his father was a judge in Northern Mazar-e Sharif province, Afghanistan.
Education
Asmatullah Rohani graduated from Madrassah Imam Abu Hanifa in 1957 and then went on and got his Bachelor in 1961 from faculty of Islamic law at Kabul University.
Career
His family comes originally from Pashat district in Kunar province. However, later his immediate family settled in Tanar district of Kunar province. In 1972 he went to Australia on a scholarship for his higher education in international law and later in 1976 he went to Japan for further studies in International law.
After completing his studies overseas, he returned to Afghanistan and served as Supreme Court ( Pashto: ستره محكمه) judge at the ministry of justice in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Later he was appointed as the director of Supreme Court( Pashto: ستره محكمه) judge to Paktika province located at the southern and eastern portion of Afghanistan. He also taught part-time at the faculty of Islamic law in Kabul University.
In 1980, he joined the National Committee for Human Rights and extended his efforts in documenting the human rights abuses and the Soviet atrocities against the civilian population of Afghanistan. In 1987, there was an assassination attempt at his life by the communist regime and he got badly injured and was admitted to hospital in Kabul.
As soon as he arrived in Peshawar, he joined the Writers of Union of Free Afghanistan and wrote a book called Jihad-fi-Sabilellah.
He came back to Peshawar and was appointed as director of free lawyers of association of Afghanistan. In May 1991, he was invited by the government of South of Korea where he participated in the Second Conference of the President's of Bar Association in Asia. He had several interviews with different Korean television channels where he discussed the need for helping the Afghan people after the Russian troop’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Although he has been ill for quite some time now, he is still actively involved in writings articles on the current affairs of Afghanistan and recently he just completed and published two more books in Pashto language called Rohani Palwashi and Rohani Salghai.
Membership
In 1988, he was invited by the government of United States of America where he met with several members of congress to discuss relevant issues regarding the future of Afghanistan and he was also invited to Voice of America in Washington Doctorate.C for a special session on Afghanistan.