Shakila (Kabul)

For other uses, see Shakila (disambiguation).
Shakila
Nationality Afghanistan
Known for Served on the 2002 Constitutional Loya Jirga

Shakila is a citizen of Afghanistan. The Bonn Conference that chose Hamid Karzai as the leader of the Afghan Transitional Administration charged him to appoint a Constitutional Loya Jirga.[1] Karzai appointed Shakila one of 502 appointees. She sat on the first of the Loya Jirga's ten committees, chaired by Ustad Sayaf.[2] She was a member of the Gender and Law Working Group as a representative of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs.[3]

She was profiled in the 2005 book "Twilight of empire: responses to occupation", where she was described as a Hazara educator who has condemned fundamentalism.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Agreement on provisional arrangements in Afghanistan pending the re-establishment of permanent government institutions". United Nations. 2001-12-05. Retrieved 2009-06-19. mirror
  2. ↑ "Members of the afghan constitutional loya jirga". 2003-12-23. Retrieved 2011-01-25. mirror
  3. ↑ Lauryn Oates, Isabelle Solon Helal (May 2004). "At the cross-roads of conflict and democracy: Women and Afghanistan's constitutional Loya Jirga". Rights & Democracy in Afghanistan. p. 78. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
  4. ↑ Mike Davis, Howard Zinn (2005). Twilight of empire: responses to occupation. Perceval Books. ISBN 9780976300908. Retrieved 2012-04-13. Another example of Afghan women's resistance is Shakeela, a Hazara educator in Kabul...