Fatana Najib (born 9 August 1953) is an Afghan

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

and former

First Lady of Afghanistan First Lady of Afghanistan was the title attributed to the wife of the president of Afghanistan. Rula Ghani, wife of former President Ashraf Ghani, was the last and most recent first lady of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021. List of first ladies of ...

. She served as First Lady from 30 September 1987 until 16 April 1992. She was the wife of PDPA general secretary and Afghan president

Mohammad Najibullah Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai (Pashto/ prs, محمد نجیب‌الله احمدزی, ; 6 August 1947 – 27 September 1996), commonly known as Dr. Najib, was an Afghan politician who served as the General Secretary of the People's Democratic Par ...

, who was murdered in 1996 by the

Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state (polity), state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist, m ...

. During her period as First Lady, Najib provided support to families of servicemembers of the

Afghan Armed Forces ("The land belongs to Allah, the rule belongs to Allah") , founded = 1997 , current_form = , branches = * Afghan Army * Afghan Air Force , headquarters = Kabul , website = , commander-in-chi ...

, visiting the families of wounded soldiers.

Personal life

Najib is from the royal line of

King Amanullah Ghazi Amanullah Khan (Pashto and Dari: ; 1 June 1892 – 25 April 1960) was the sovereign of Afghanistan from 1919, first as Emir and after 1926 as King, until his abdication in 1929. After the end of the Third Anglo-Afghan War in August 1919 ...

. Najib met the future Afghan leader,

when she was an eighth-grade student and he was her science tutor. They married on September 1, 1974 and had three daughters, Heela (born 1977), Moska (born 1984) Onai (born 1978).. Najib later became principal of the Peace School in Kabul. Najib and her three daughters fled Afghanistan in 1992 to live in exile in Delhi, India. She has resided in India ever since, while Heela and Moska have studied and worked abroad. Heela has worked and lived in Thailand and currently lives in Switzerland where she graduated from Franklin College and now studies for a Ph.D. in religious studies at the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

. Moska was also educated in Switzerland and lives and works in Singapore.

References

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