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Interview with Fatima Gailani

31-03-2011 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 881

Ms Fatima Gailani was appointed as the President of the Afghan Red Crescent Society in 2005. She was born in 1954 in Kabul and is the daughter of Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani, the leader of the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan, who fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. She lived in exile during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and acted as spokesperson in London for the Afghan Mujahideen. After her return to Afghanistan she was chosen as a delegate to the Emergency Loya Jirga (Grand Council) of June 2002 and was appointed as a constitution-drafting and -ratifying commissioner.

The interview was conducted in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 8 March 2011 by Walid Akbar Sarwary, Spokesperson and Head of the Information and Dissemination Department of the Afghan Red Crescent Society.


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