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MEMBERS OF THE SPECIAL INDEPENDENT COMMISSION FOR CONVENING EMERGENCY LOYA JIRGA

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 personnel. Here are the members of the Special Independent Commission.

Name

Functions

Profession / Background

Ethnicity

Last place of residence

Qasimyar, Ismael, Mr.

 

Chairman

Lawyer, expert in constitutional law

Qizilbash (Heart)

Teheran

 

Hoquqmal, Mahbooba, Mrs.

 

Vice Chair

Professor of Law & Political Science in the University of Kabul and in the Afghan University in Peshawar.

Tajik

Peshawar

 

Abdul Aziz, Al-Haj, Mr.

 

Vice Chair

Professor; Dean of the Sharia Faculty of Kabul University

Pashtun (Laghman)

Kabul

 

Ahang, Mohammed Kazim, Mr.

Head of the Relations Committee

 

Head of the Faculty of Journalism in the University of Kabul; worked with NGOs under the Taliban

Tajik

Kabul

 

Ameer Mohammed Essa, Mr.

Commission Member

Teacher, 25 years experience in education; known as mediator between different Hazara groups and between Pashtun Kuchi and Hazara

Hazara

Yakawlang; Bamiyan

Borgai, Mohammed Taher, Mr.

Head of the Drafting Committee

PhD Germany in Law and science; lecturer Kabul University; former head of law-making Dep’t, Min of Justice, worked with HR NGOs.

Pashtun

Ahmedzai

 

Kabul

 

Jabbarkhel, Hajji Zaher Khan, Mr.

 

Commission Member

Previously director of Nasir Bagh refugee camp, near Peshawar

Pashtun Kuchi

Peshawar

 

Hamidi, Mohammed Farid, Mr.

 

Commission Member

Lecturer in Law and Political Science, anti-Taliban student leader

Pashtun (Ningrahar)

 

Kabul

 

Kamal, Enayatullah, Mr.

Commission Member

Lecturer in the Sharia Faculty, Kabul University; 

Uzbek (Faryab)

Kabul

Karkin, Nur Mohammed, Mr.

 

Commission Member

Former civil servant in Northern Afghanistan and prominent intellectual figure

Turkmen

Ashkhabad

 

Mudaber, Dr. Sadiq, Mr.

 

Commission Member

Former Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, known as mediator between different Shia factions

Hazara (Wardak)

Parwan

 

Mujahed, Prof. Sayed Amin, Mr.

 

Commission Member

Professor of History in the University of Kabul; member of the Academy of Science

Sayed Pashtun

Kabul

Nematy, Humaira, Mrs.

 

Commission Member

Professor of Law in Balkh University (Mazar-i Sharif)

Tajik

Mazar-i Sharif/Quetta

Nidai, Prof. Mohammed Mahfooz, Mr.

 

Head of the Criteria Committee

Professor of Geology and Mining in Kabul University, Deputy Head of the Academy of Science

Sayed Pashtun

 

Kabul

 

Parlika, Soraya, Ms

Commission Member

Prominent women’s rights activist and Former Head of the Afghan Red Crescent

Pashtun

Kabul

 

Rahimy, Abdul Salam, Mr.

 

Commission Member

Director of the NGO Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (CHA)

Pashtun

Peshawar

 

Sayed Massoud, Ustad / Mr.

Commission Member

Master in Economics; civil servant under Rabbani and Taliban

Sayed

Islamabad

 

Sebghatullah Sanjar, Colonel

 

Commission Member

Young former military officer, anti-taliban underground activist

Tajik

Herat

 

Seljuki, Rashid, Mr.

Commission Member

Religious figure in Herat; worked with Islamic Cultural Shura during the Jihad; responsible for the Afghan mosque in Virginia, USA

Tajik

Lives in USA

Tawana, Dr Sayed Musa, Mr.

 

Commission Member

Known as one of the founders of the Islamist movement in Afghanistan; former Prof. of Theology at Kabul University; teacher of Rabbani

Tajik from

Takhar

Kabul

Wolwaliji, Assadullah, Mr.

Commission Member

Graduate from Military University; historian, leading intellectual and prolific writer

Uzbek

Mazar-i Sharif