Shahzada Shahid

Legislator, Person

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Who is Shahzada Shahid?

Mawlawi Shahzada Shahid was elected to represent Kunar Province in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of its National Legislature, in 2005.

A report on Kunar prepared at the Navy Postgraduate School stated that he was a religious scholar who studied in Pakistan. It stated that he was "associated with Sayyaf [sic] or Hezbi Islami [sic]". It stated he sat on the counter-narcotics committee. It stated that, although he had never visited the USA, he had four brothers living in the USA.

Shahzada joined a new group of legislators in 2010, who called themselves the "Reformists". The other members of the group include: Sayeed Hussein Alimi Balkhi, Jafar Mehdawi, Daud Kalakani, Noor Akbari, Nasima Neazi, Kamal Naser Osoli, Mohammad Abdu.

According to Pahjwok Afghan News Shahzada was re-elected to the Wolesi Jirga in 2010.

In September 2010 Hamid Karzai appointed Shahzada to the Afghanistan High Peace Council.

In February 2012 Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed Shahzada to lead a delegation to investigate the deaths of civilians in Konar and Kapisa provinces, by NATO forces.

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on July 23, 2013

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