Mirwais Yasini
| Mirwais Yasini | |
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| First Deputy Speaker of the House of the People | |
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Assumed office 2013 |
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| Member of the House of the People for Nangarhar | |
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Assumed office 2005 |
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| Born | 1962 (age 54–55) Kama, Afghanistan |
| Alma mater | International Islamic University, Islamabad |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Religion | Islam |
Mirwais Yasini (born in 1962) is the current First Deputy Speaker of the Lower House of the Afghan Parliament. Following the Communist coup in 1978, Mirwais Yasini worked actively to combat the Soviet invasion, and went on to oppose the Taliban from 1993 to 2001 as a social and political activist. After the fall of the Taliban regime in 2002, Yasini began his political career as the Director of Foreign Relations and Economic Evaluation for Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance, and as a prominent member of the Emergency Loya Jirga, which met in Kabul. Since that time he has held several high-level political posts, including such titles as the First Deputy Speaker of the Constitutional Loya Jirga and Director General of the Counter Narcotics Department. In 2005, Yasini was elected to the Lower House of the Afghan Parliament, and became the leader of its largest parliamentary party. In March 2009, he announced his candidacy for Afghanistan's Presidential Elections in opposition to the sitting incumbent, President Hamid Karzai.
Mirwais Yasini was born in 1962, in Kama district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan; his father, Abdul Sattar Yasini, was a respected Islamic academic and attorney. He attended primary and high school in Nangarhar, and became fluent in Pashto, Dari, Arabic, English and Urdu.
After the Communist coup In 1978, Yasini and his family took refuge in Pakistan. From 1978-1979, Mr. Yasini was with the Afghan Mujahideen, and played an active role in driving the Soviets out of Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion. The Mujahideen were secretly supplied and funded by the United States.
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