The Wolesi Jirga -- lower house of Parliament -- on 20120407 announced a list of 43 of lawmakers who remained absent from the legislature last month without informing the assembly secretariat.

Announced by Secretary Abdul Sattar Khwasi, the list includes Abdul Rab Rassoul Sayaf, a lawmaker from central Kabul province, Mir Amanullah Gudz, Baktiash Seywosh, Ezatullah Atif, Syed Ali Kazmi and Obaidullah Kazmi.

Fatima Nazari, Abdul Hadi, Nijla Dehqan Nejad, Rahima Jami, Nisar Ahmad Ghoryani, Farida Hamidi, a female MP from Nimroz, Abdul Wadood Popal and Habiba Sadat (both from Helmand) are also on the list.

Abdul Rahim Ayubi, Bibi Hamida (Kandahar), Obaidullah Barakzai (Uruzgan), Qazi Abdul Rahim (Badghis) and Asifa Shadab from Faryab were among the abseentees.

And so were Fehmida Sadat from Jawzjan, Syed Noor Sadat and Khiar Mohammad Eimaq from Sar-i-Pul, Huma Sultani, Shah Jehan and Arif Rahmani from Ghazni, Razia Mangal Sadat and Ibrahim Ghakhtalai from Paktia, Shakila Hashmi from Logar, Sadiqa Mubariz from Maidan Wardak and Maulvi Moahhid from Nuristan.

Similarly, Mirwais Yasini, Laila Wali Hakami, Fareshta Anwari and Faridon Momand from Nangarhar, as well as Zalmai Mujaddadi, Abdul Latif Padran and Amanullah Paiman from Badakhshan and Syed Mansoor Nadri from Baghlan also stayed away from house sessions.

Alam Khan Azadi, Ishaq Rehguzar, Asadullah Sharifi and Abbas Ibrahim from Balkh and Kuchi tribe representative Hela Irshad were among the 43 indidivuals.