Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi
عبدالرؤوف ابراهیمی
Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi in 2018
Speaker of the House of the People
In office
27 February 2011 – 20 May 2019
Preceded byYunus Qanuni
Succeeded byMir Rahman Rahmani
Personal details
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Imam Sahib, Kunduz Province, Afghanistan
SpouseNA
ChildrenNA
ResidenceKabul City
OccupationPolitician, legislator
Known forSpeaker of the Wolesi Jirga
EthnicityUzbek

Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi is an Uzbek legislator and politician from Afghanistan.[1]

Biography

Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi was born in the Imam Sahib district of northern Kunduz Province in 1962, and is a member of the Ibrahims Clan. He finished his primary education at Basus Middle School in Imam Shabib District and later studied at a madrassa until 12th grade in Takharistan, Kunduz.[2] After completing high school education in 1979, he was admitted to the Languages & Literature Faculty of Kabul University.

He joined the Hezb-e Islam mujahedeen group when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Following the mujahidin's victory, he was appointed as Shir Khan Dry Port director in 1993. Subsequently, he was appointed as commander of 3rd southern border police zone.

After the collapse of the Taliban regime, he worked as commander of border police in 2002 before being elected as Emergency Loya Jirga member the same year. Ibrahimi was elected as Wolesi Jirga (lower house) member from Kunduz in 2005. He won a parliamentary seat for the second time in 2010 when he was elected as speaker of the Wolesi Jirga. He earned his BA in the Arabic Department of the Literature Faculty at the Kabul University.[3]

References

  1. ^ Adam Taylor (2021-12-01) [2015-06-22]. "Watch: The remarkable calm of an Afghan politician as a Taliban bomb explodes in parliament". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
  2. ^ "Ibrahimi, Haji Abdul Rauf Rawoof Raoof Ebrahimi". Afghan Biographies.
  3. ^ "Today's Afghanistan". United Missions Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. 2011-06-05. Archived from the original on 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2015-02-15. President Karzai has once again failed to keep his promise of sending a complete list of cabinet choices to the Wolesi Jirga, lower house of Parliament, for a vote of confidence. Speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi informed the house on Saturday that the president had phoned him to say that parliamentarians could go on summer recess while the list is prepared.
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