Sahira Sharif

Who is Sahira Sharif?

Sahira Sharif was elected to represent Khost Province in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of its National Legislature, in 2005.

A report on Khost prepared at the Navy Postgraduate School stated that she "was possibly associated with Hezb-e Islami". A member of the Pashtun ethnic group, she attended University and may have had a Master's degree. As a member of parliament, she sat on the Education Committee. A former Hezb-e Islami leader, she presented herself in 2005 as an independent candidate, and was believed to support the Hamid Karzai administration.

She is described as a women's rights activist.

During the 2009 presidential election, she supported Ashraf Ghani.

In the 2010 Afghan Parliamentary Elections, she ran in Khost province as an independent.