Azra Jafari, Nili mayor, addressing the audience in 2012
Mayor of Nili, Afghanistan
In office December 2008 – January 2014
President
Hamid Karzai
Governor
Qurban Ali Oruzgani
Personal details
Born
Azra Jafari
1978[1] Afghanistan
Residence(s)
Nili, Daykundi
Occupation
Mayor, writer
Award(s)
Meeto Memorial Award for Young South Asians 2011[2]
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Azra Jafari (Persian: عذرا جعفری) is an Afghan politician and women rights advocate who became the first female mayor in Afghanistan appointed by President Hamid Karzai in December 2008. She became the mayor of Nili, a town in Daykundi Province of Afghanistan. She belongs to the Hazara ethnic group.
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