Shakila (Kabul)

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]

For other uses, see Shakila (disambiguation).
Shakila
NationalityAfghanistan
Known forServed on the 2002 Constitutional Loya Jirga

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. Archived from the original on 2011-01-17. Retrieved 2009-06-19.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. "Members of the afghan constitutional loya jirga". 2003-12-23. Archived from the original on 2011-01-25. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
  3. Lauryn Oates, Isabelle Solon Helal (May 2004). "At the cross-roads of conflict and democracy: Women and Afghanistan's constitutional Loya Jirga" (PDF). 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...
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