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MEMBERS OF THE SPECIAL INDEPENDENT COMMISSION
FOR CONVENING EMERGENCY LOYA JIRGA
Provided by the UN mission in Kabul
Posted 2/5/02
In accordance with the December 2001 Bonn
Agreement, a Special Independent Commission has been established
with final authority for determining the procedures and number
of participants in an Emergency Loya Jirga, to be convened
June 10-16. The Loya Jirga - or traditional Afghan Grand Council
- will elect a Head of State for Afghanistan's Transitional
Administration, and will propose its structure and key personel.
Here, EurasiaNet presents a list of the members of the Special
Independent Commission.
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Name
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Functions
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Profession / Background
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Ethnicity
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Last place of residence
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Qasimyar, Ismael, Mr.
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Chairman
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Lawyer, expert in constitutional
law
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Qizilbash (Heart)
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Teheran
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Hoquqmal, Mahbooba, Mrs.
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Vice
Chair
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Professor of
Law & Political Science in the University
of Kabul and in the Afghan University in Peshawar.
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Tajik
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Peshawar
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Abdul Aziz, Al-Haj, Mr.
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Vice Chair
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Professor; Dean of the Sharia
Faculty of Kabul University
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Pashtun (Laghman)
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Kabul
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Ahang, Mohammed
Kazim, Mr.
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Head of the Relations Committee
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Head of the Faculty of Journalism
in the University of Kabul; worked with NGOs under
the Taliban
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Tajik
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Kabul
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Ameer Mohammed
Essa, Mr.
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Commission
Member
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Teacher, 25 years experience
in education; known as mediator between different
Hazara groups and between Pashtun Kuchi and Hazara
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Hazara
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Yakawlang;
Bamiyan
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Borgai, Mohammed Taher, Mr.
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Head of the Drafting Committee
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PhD Germany in Law and science;
lecturer Kabul University; former head of law-making
Dep’t, Min of Justice, worked with HR NGOs.
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Pashtun
Ahmedzai
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Kabul
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Jabbarkhel, Hajji Zaher Khan,
Mr.
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Commission Member
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Previously director of Nasir
Bagh refugee camp, near Peshawar
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Pashtun Kuchi
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Peshawar
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Hamidi, Mohammed Farid, Mr.
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Commission
Member
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Lecturer in
Law and Political Science, anti-Taliban student
leader
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Pashtun (Ningrahar)
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Kabul
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Kamal, Enayatullah, Mr.
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Commission
Member
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Lecturer in the Sharia Faculty,
Kabul University;
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Uzbek (Faryab)
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Kabul
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Karkin, Nur Mohammed, Mr.
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Commission
Member
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Former civil servant in Northern
Afghanistan and prominent intellectual figure
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Turkmen
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Ashkhabad
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Mudaber, Dr. Sadiq, Mr.
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Commission
Member
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Former Deputy Minister of Labour
and Social Affairs, known as mediator between
different Shia factions
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Hazara (Wardak)
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Parwan
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Mujahed, Prof. Sayed Amin, Mr.
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Commission
Member
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Professor of History in the University
of Kabul; member of the Academy of Science
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Sayed Pashtun
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Kabul
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Nematy, Humaira, Mrs.
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Commission
Member
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Professor of
Law in Balkh University (Mazar-i Sharif)
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Tajik
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Mazar-i Sharif/Quetta
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Nidai, Prof. Mohammed Mahfooz,
Mr.
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Head
of the Criteria Committee
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Professor of
Geology and Mining in Kabul University, Deputy
Head of the Academy of Science
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Sayed Pashtun
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Kabul
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Parlika, Soraya,
Ms
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Commission
Member
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Prominent women’s rights activist
and Former Head of the Afghan Red Crescent
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Pashtun
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Kabul
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Rahimy, Abdul Salam, Mr.
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Commission
Member
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Director of
the NGO Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (CHA)
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Pashtun
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Peshawar
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Sayed Massoud, Ustad / Mr.
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Commission
Member
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Master in Economics; civil servant
under Rabbani and Taliban
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Sayed
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Islamabad
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Sebghatullah Sanjar, Colonel
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Commission
Member
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Young former military officer,
anti-taliban underground activist
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Tajik
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Herat
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Seljuki, Rashid,
Mr.
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Commission
Member
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Religious figure in Herat; worked
with Islamic Cultural Shura during the Jihad;
responsible for the Afghan mosque in Virginia,
USA
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Tajik
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Lives in USA
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Tawana, Dr Sayed Musa, Mr.
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Commission
Member
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Known as one of the founders
of the Islamist movement in Afghanistan; former
Prof. of Theology at Kabul University; teacher
of Rabbani
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Tajik from
Takhar
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Kabul
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Wolwaliji,
Assadullah, Mr.
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Commission
Member
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Graduate from Military University;
historian, leading intellectual and prolific writer
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Uzbek
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Mazar-i Sharif
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