Abdul Satar Sirat ( , ps, عبدالستار سيرت; born October 15, 1937) is an Islamic Scholar and former Afghan Justice Minister, as well as Deputy Prime Minister.

Education

* Religious education from Madrasa-i Abu Hanifa * Bachelor's degree in Islamic Studies from

Kabul University Kabul University (KU; prs, دانشگاه کابل, translit= Dāneshgāh-e-Kābul; ps, د کابل پوهنتون, translit=Da Kābul Pohantūn) is one of the major and oldest institutions of higher education in Afghanistan. It is in the 3rd ...

* Two master's degrees: in Islamic Sharia law and theology from Egypt, and in International Law * Studied for one year at

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* Completed under-graduate courses in Law at

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* PhD in Islamic Studies from

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Work life

Satar Sirat served as the Dean of Faculty of Islamic Studies at Kabul University from 1965 to 1967. In 1969, he was appointed as the Minister of Justice of Afghanistan until King Zahir Shah was deposed in 1973. In 1990, he was sent by Shah to Saudi Arabia and Islamabad, Pakistan for discussions on how to end the Afghan conflict. In 2000, Sirat lived in Jedda, Saudi Arabia and taught Islamic Studies at the

King Abdulaziz University King Abdulaziz University (KAU) ( ar, جامعة الملك عبد العزيز) is a public university in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. With over 117,096 students in 2022, it is the largest university in the country. Located in south Jeddah, the univ ...

Later life

Abdul Satar Sirat returned to Afghanistan in 2001. Sirat was a representative of the Rome group at the Bonn talks, where Sirat was elected as head of the interim government with 80% of the delegate vote. However, there were ethnicity-based concerns by the US government and particularly President Bush's Special Presidential Envoy Khalilzad, that Sirat was not a Pashtun, and Sirat was told to step aside for

Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repub ...

. In later peace talks between the Taliban and the US government, the

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asked for the establishment of a neutral interim government, and specifically nominated Sirat as head of such an interim administration.

References

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