Khalid Pashtoon
Khalid Pashtoon was elected to represent Kandahar Province in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of its National Legislature, in 2005. He is a member of the Pashtun ethnic group from the Barakzai tribe. A report on Kandahar prepared at the Navy Postgraduate School stated he attended the University of Southern California. He sits on the Internal Security Committee as its deputy chair. He is a former aide to Gul Agha Sherzai.Khalid Pashtoon was widely quoted when he described assassinated tribal leader Abdul Hakim Jan as the only leader in Kandahar to have opposed the Taliban.