Afghan Biographies

Faizi, Ajmal Khan


Name Faizi, Ajmal Khan
Ethnic backgr. Pashtun
Date of birth
Function/Grade Journalist and current liaison to ex President Hamid Karzai
History and Biodata

2. Previous Functions Ajmal Faizi Aimal Faizi:
Journalist
Presidential Spokesperson (20111029, 20141007-20141015)
current liaison to ex President Hamid Karzai (20150518)

3. Biodata:
faizi_ajmalAjmal Faizi Emal Faizi Aimal Faizi Eimal Faizi Aimal Khan Faizi Feyzi hails from Kandahar Province, where he was born. He has completed his higher educations in journalism in France where he obtained the bachelor’s in journalism and political science. Faizi Aimal was also an Afghan Student of Alliance Française de Karachi, Pakistan. He has studied journalism in the Institute of Journalism Bordeaux Aquitaine (Université Michel de Montaigne – Bordeaux III) and Political Sciences in the Institute of Political Studies (Université Montesquieu – Bordeaux IV). He worked as a Jounrnalist before and media advisor in Afghanistan for the state run news agency (Bakhtar News Agency), Ministry of Information & Culture and National Radio Television (RTA). Faizi contributed to Afghan newspapers and websites in and outside Afghanistan. He was appointed as a presidential spokesman based on President Hamid Karzai’s decree on 20111009 and is the sixth presidential spokesman taking office after Waheed Omar’s resignation.

Faizi speaks Dari, Pashto, English, French and German very well.

Last Modified 2015-05-18
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