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Guardian UK
Fawzia Koofi was elected as an MP in Afghanistan in 2005, and re-elected, with the highest vote achieved by a woman, in 2010. She explains what took her to parliament, and what makes her want to run for the presidency in 2014 full story
Thursday, April 07, 2011
Fawzia Koofi In 2014.
"My plan is to run for the presidency in 2014. One has to make a choice: I could flee to the UK or America with my daughters and watch the situation, watch my country go where the traditional leaders want, or stay here and make a small contribution. I've decided to go for the second choice."
This is no stunt. Fawzai Koofi could actually pull it off. She would need to mobilize a winning coalition of parties and politicians behind her, and that won't be easy. But there are several compelling reasons to believe she could do it.
The young MP from Badakhshan is already one of Afghanistan's most trusted politicians. She's already the deputy speaker of the Wolesi Jirga. She's a tireless worker, she's probably the most widely respected woman in Afghanistan, she's an increasingly familiar face on Afghan news and public affairs television programs, and she's enormously popular. full story
Ms Magazine
Fawzia Koofi: Making a New Afghanistan For Her Daughters
The winter of 2000 was cold in the Wakhan Corridor, one of the remotest regions in northern Afghanistan, as the Taliban were closing in on what remained of a flimsy resistance. Fawzia Koofi, full story
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Woman's Hour, 07/04/2011, Fawzia Koofi:
Fawzia Koofi talks about her journey from a childhood in the untamed mountains of northern Afghanistan to her recent announcement she will run for the Afghan presidency in 2014 Listen here
