Abdul qayum karzai biography samples

2. Previous Functions:
Wolesi Jirga Member 2005 MP MNA Kandahar
Presidential Candidate 2014 Election

3. Biodata:
Abdul Qayum Karzai was born in Karz 1957, Kandahar Province. He has an M.A. from USC and is President Hamid Karzai's older brother (one of six brothers and one sister), a businessman and a former member of the National Assembly (parliament). After growing up in Kandahar, the elder Karzai left his home country at the age of 23 in 1969 to train as a pilot of the Afghan air force in the United States. Motion sickness cut short that career. He is married to Patricia, a lady who is a US citizen. They have two grown up children. (20131230) Many Afghans were very critical of Abdul Qayum Karzai for his very poor attendance in parliament. In the summer of 2008, the speaker of the parliament, Yunis Qanuni began publishing the regular attendance tallies, and this put added pressure on Karzai to respond.

In October 2008, Abdul Qayum Karzai gave up his seat in the parliament and cited health problems as the reason he missed so many parliamentary sessions. Abdul Qayyum Karzai, on behalf of the Karzai family, owned and ran Afghan restaurants in the USA. Qayum Karzai has also been involved in secret meetings to work out some sort of peace agreement with the Taliban. He has even traveled to Saudi Arabia to see if he can get their help as well in terms of bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table, and ending the Taliban war against the Afghan government. He bagged most votes in Wolesi Jirga Elections 2005. He has been accused by his rivals of being involved in drugs trafficking. In Wolesi Jirga 2005 he was a member of the Narcotics Committee. He has been treated for his heart or kidney problems in the USA.

Qayum's primary companies, Technologists Inc., Rosslyn, Va. and Daman Construction, win every government contract without having to deal with the nuisance of free market competition, which allows Qayum

The next time I saw Karzai, we talked about the Pamiris. When I mentioned that they had waited three months to see him, he looked shocked. “Nobody told me,” he said defensively. “Now I must find out if all the arrangements for the things they were asking for were made or not.” Karzai looked over at his aides, and said something briskly in Pashtun. One of them began scribbling on a notepad. Karzai looked back at me, and made it clear that he was ready to move on. When the conversation turned to the extremes of Afghanistan’s topography, he looked relieved.

The town of Charikar, north of Kabul, where the Shamali Plains meet the foothills of the Hindu Kush, is the gateway to the Panjshir Valley. The area was the home base of Ahmed Shah Massoud and other Tajiks in the Northern Alliance. In the election, Karzai’s share of the vote in the Panjshir was around one per cent. Afterward, Tajiks angrily accused him of having “Pashtunized” his administration by removing Northern Alliance men from their government jobs. These days, the Panjshir is something like enemy territory for Karzai. I went along on a visit he made to Charikar in March, for a road opening, and we were flown in on two American Chinook helicopters, escorted by two Apaches, two Black Hawks, and two fighter jets, which circled overhead once we landed. In the hour we were on the ground—just long enough for Karzai to dump a ceremonial load of dirt—dozens of American and Afghan guards stood by.

A few days earlier, I had been invited to dinner in Charikar at the house of Atta, a local strongman who was a former mujahideen commander. The entertainment was provided by a maskhara, or traditional Afghan jester, named Samad Pashean. Long before the recent decades of warfare, maskhara performed for the country’s monarchs; as in medieval Europe, they had license to lampoon the powerful. Pashean was one of the last remaining maskhara. He had survived the Soviet occupation, the civil war, and the Taliban years by

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Hamid Karzai's male family members

Top row: Shah Wali Karzai; Ahmed Wali Karzai; Hamid Karzai, now president; and Abdul Wali Karzai. Bottom row: Abdul Ahmad Karzai; Qayum Karzai; Abdul Ahad Karzai, the patriarch; and Mahmoud Karzai.

Afghan Bios Insider view:
There are two schools of thought about Hamid Karzai. The first is that he's a vain, incompetent, monumentally corrupt leader with serious mood-disorder problems that require medication. The second is that the President of Afghanistan is a deceptively clever politician who has built a serviceable coalition among Afghanistan's riot of tribes and factions — which requires a certain amount of skill and, shall we say, lubrication — and a deft public figure who knows how to balance his dependence on the U.S. military against his public increasing frustration with an endless war. But in 2010, the notion of Hamid Karzai as a solid, legitimate Afghan leader died a slow, wasting death. Karzai's character was well described by US Ambassador Karl Eikenberry in a leaked cable in which he wrote of "a paranoid and weak individual unfamiliar with the basics of nation-building".

2. Previous Functions:
Deputy Foreign Minister (1992-1994)
Exiled Popal Tribal Leader in Pakistan (1995 - 2001)
President of Afghanistan (2001-20140929)

3. Biodata:
Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's first elected president, since 2004. Hamed Karzai was born on December 24, 1957 in the village of Karz, Kandahar he was the fourth of seven children. Karzai has six brothers, including Mahmoud Karzai, Qayum Karzai, Ahmed Wali Karzai, and one sister Fauzia Karzai. Karzai is an ethnic Pashtun from a subtribe of the tribe of the Afghan royal family. His father, the late Abdul Ahad Karzai (1922 - 19990714), was a prominent Popolzai tribal leader and Deputy Speaker of the Afghan