Mirwais Yasini Politician
Mirwais Yasini (born in 1962) is the current First Deputy Speaker of the Lower House of the Afghan Parliament. Following the Communist coup in 1978, Mirwais Yasini worked actively to combat the Soviet invasion, and went on to oppose the Taliban from 1993 to 2001 as a social and political activist. After the fall of the Taliban regime in 2002, Yasini began his political career as the Director of Foreign Relations and Economic Evaluation for Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance, and as a prominent member of the Emergency Loya Jirga, which met in Kabul. Since that time he has held several high-level political posts, including such titles as the First Deputy Speaker of the Constitutional Loya Jirga and Director General of the Counter Narcotics Department. In 2005, Yasini was elected to the Lower House of the Afghan Parliament, and became the leader of its largest parliamentary party. In March 2009, he announced his candidacy for Afghanistan's Presidential Elections in opposition to the sitting incumbent, President Hamid Karzai.
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| office | First Deputy Speaker of the House of the People Member of the House of the People for Nangarhar |
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