Afghan Biographies

Nabizada, Mursal Mrs.


Name Nabizada, Mursal Mrs.
Ethnic backgr. Uzbek
Date of birth
Function/Grade Ex Wolesi Jirga Member 2018 MP MNA Kabul
History and Biodata

2. Previous Function:
Wolesi Jirga Member 2018 MNA MP Kabul
3. Biodata:
Mrs. Mursal Nabizada was awarded a bachelor degree from Balkh University. She received 1,319 votes in 2018 Wolesi Jirga election and got a seat in WJ 2018.
 

Mursal Nabizada was among the few female parliamentarians who stayed in Kabul after the Taliban seized power in August 2021.

Mursal Nabidzadah was shot dead along with a bodyguard when gunmen broke into her house in the Ahmad Shah Baba area of Kabul on January 15, 2023, Khalid Zadran, a Taliban spokesman for the Kabul police said. He added that Nadidzadah’s brother was injured in the incident. She was shot in her house in Arzan Qimat neighborhood of the 12th PD of Kabul city.

It is the first time a lawmaker from the previous administration has been killed in the city since the takeover.
 

Local police chief Molvi Hamidullah Khalid said Nabizada and her guard were shot dead around 3 a.m. Saturday in the same room. He said her brother and a second security guard were injured. A third security guard fled the scene with money and jewelry. She died on the first floor of her home, which she used as her office. Khalid said investigations are underway.
 

Nabizada was elected in 2019 to represent Kabul and stayed in office until the Taliban takeover.

She was a member of the parliamentary defense commission and worked at a private non-governmental group, the Institute for Human Resources Development and Research.

Afghan police have arrested the former bodyguard named Malyaar of a female member of parliament who was fatally shot at her home in Kabul last month, the Taliban administration said on Friday February 17, 2022..

 

Last Modified 2023-02-18
Established 2019-01-16