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Nasruddin Mohseni is a politician of

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. He is a leader of the Hizb e Wahadat e Islami—a party that serves members of

Hazara ethnic group The Hazaras ( fa, , Həzārə; haz, , Āzərə) are an ethnic group and the principal component of the population of Afghanistan, native to, and primarily residing in the Hazaristan (Hazarajat) region in central Afghanistan and generally scatte ...

, who are from Islam's

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minority.

Delegate to the Constitutional Loya Jirga 2002-2004

During the 2001

Bonn Conference After Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled in Afghanistan, in December 2001, the German city of Bonn hosted a conference – widely known as the Bonn Conference – of Afghan leaders at Hotel Petersberg, to choo ...

that selected

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 ...

as Afghanistan's interim leader obliged him to empower a

Constitutional Loya Jirga Afghan leaders who met at the December 2001 Bonn Conference which picked Hamid Karzai to lead the Afghan Transitional Authority Afghan may refer to: *Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia *Afghans, people or ...

to write a new constitution. Karzai appointed Nasruddin Mohseni to be a delegate to the Loya Jirga. He sat on the first of the Jirga's ten committees, chaired by Ustad Rabani. Committee one drafted 45 articles. The Jirga sat from 2002 through 2004. Popular elections to the

Wolesi Jirga The House of Representatives of the People, or Da Afghanistan Wolesi Jirga ( ps, دَ افغانستان ولسي جرګه), was the lower house of the bicameral National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, alongside the upper Hous ...

, the lower house of Afghanistan's national assembly followed in 2005.

Hizb e Wahadat e Islami

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'' chose to quote Nasruddin while describing mounting disenchantment with Hamid Karzai's central government among the minority groups in Afghanistan's north. They described him as a ''"senior leader"' of the Hizb e Wahadat e Islami.

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