Afghan Biographies
Wardak, Roshanak Mrs. Dr.
Name | Wardak, Roshanak Mrs. Dr. |
Ethnic backgr. | Pashtun |
Date of birth | 1956 |
Function/Grade | Ex MP MNA |
History and Biodata |
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3.Biodata "I am a medical doctor and I am their representative and I am a woman so they look after me. As for the Taliban, they have respect for women and for my family because it is a famous family," she says, interviewed in an office in the echoing parliament offices on a sweltering afternoon in Kabul. One of her drivers is "active Taliban", Wardak says. It is clear that he, as much as her good works, guarantees her safety when the insurgents stop the traffic, haul out those who have government identity cards or even government phone numbers on their mobiles and shoot them. Such are the myriad compromises that life in Afghanistan entails for tens of millions of people.
Wardak, a qualified gynaecologist who spent many years working with Afghan women refugees in Pakistan and who refused to wear the all-covering burqa when living in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, is not averse to asking difficult questions herself. She says she questioned one Taliban commander about why he and his fellow militants "were destroying her country".
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Last Modified | 2018-02-21 |
Established | 2009-10-12 |