Afghan Biographies

Sapai, Wagma Mrs. Waghma Wazhma Safi Safai


Name Sapai, Wagma Mrs. Waghma Wazhma Safi Safai
Ethnic backgr. Pashtun
Date of birth 1963
Function/Grade Ex Wolesi Jirga Member 2018 MP MNA Kunar
History and Biodata

Waghma Sapai
Phone: 0707942827

2. Previous Functions:
Employee at the Ministry of Interior Affairs.(1985-1993)
Kabul-Torkham Highway Security Planning Office. She is ranked as a Major in the police force (2001-2004)
 Deputy for the Research and Observation office of the AIHRC in the Eastern region (2004-2007)
AIHRC’s Eastern office (2007-2010), Head of the Women’s Support Department.
Wolesi Jirga Member 2010 MP MNA Kunar
Wolesi Jirga Member 2018 MP MNA Kunar

3. Biodata:
sapai_wagmaWagma Sapai Wazhma Safi Wazhma Sapai was born in 1963 in the Masori village of Sawkai district, Kunar province. Sapai graduated from the Rahman Baba High School in Kabul in 1981. She has a bachelor’s degree from the Kabul Police Academy which she earned in 1979.

While with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), Sapai worked closely with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR), Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Afghanistan Attorney General’s office, and the Judiciary, as well as with religious/tribal elders on women’s affairs.

Sapai ran unsuccessfully for parliament in 2005,
 

Wagma Sapai is an independent Wolesi Jirga 2010 member.
 

Commission (2012): Internal Affairs
 

She is married and has five children.
 

Sapai speaks Pashtu, Dari and Russian.

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