Ghulam Farooq Wardak
Ghulam Farooq Wardak | |
|---|---|
Mohammad Hanif Atmar | |
| Succeeded by | Assadullah Hanif Balkhi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1959 Preston University |
Ghulam Farooq Wardak (born 1959) is a politician in Afghanistan, formerly serving as the Minister of Education. He was appointed to that position by Afghan President Hamid Karzai on October 11, 2008.[1]
Early life
Farooq Wardak was born in the
Hezb-e Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
.
Since the end of Taliban regime in late 2001, Farooq Wardak has continued to support Hezb-e Islami followers by appointing them to interesting administrative positions.
Higher education
After Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Wardak stopped his studies in the faculty of Pharmacy of Kabul University and took refuge in
KIIT University in 2012, other recipients at the ceremony were eminent economist, Baidyanath Misra, and Jigme Thinley, the then Prime Minister of Bhutan.[4]
Work life
- 1986 - 1991: He worked with The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan as a health officer.
- 1996 - 2001: United Nations Development program in Peshawar, Pakistan.
- 2002 - 2004: worked as Director of the Constitutional Commission Secretariat and later the Secretariat of the Constitutional Loya Jirga, the grand Assembly that ratified the constitution.
- 2004 - 2005: he was appointed as Director of the Joint Election Management Body’s Secretariat (a UN and Afghan Government body), organized the first voter registration process and first ever presidential election.
- 2005: Was appointed as Cabinet Secretary and Director General of Office of Administrative Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.[5]
- 2006: Was appointed as the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs.
- 2008: Was appointed as the Minister of Education in Afghanistan.
Footnotes
- ^ "Afghanistan Online: Members of President Hamid Karzai's Cabinet". Archived from the original on 2010-03-30. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
- ^ Wardak, Mohammad Ghulam Farooq, Dr.
- ^ "دغلام فاروق وردګ ژوند لیک". Archived from the original on 2009-07-30. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
- ^ "8th Annual Convocation". September 9, 2012.
- ^ http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Policy_Dialogue/48th_ICE/Messages/afghanistan_MIN08.pdf [bare URL PDF]