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Mohammad Nazar Faqiri (born 1955), or Nazar Muhammad Faqiri, was appointed to serve in the

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, the upper house of

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`s national legislature, in 2005. He sits in the Meshrano Jirga as a direct appointment by

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. Faqiri is from Baghlan Province, and is considered a tribal elder there. He was born in 1955 in the village of Faqi in Pul-e-Khumri, Baghlan Province. and is a member of Afghanistan`s Tajik ethnic group. Faqiri completed high school prior to leaving Afghanistan as a war-time refugee in 1980. He went to live in Pakistan as a refugee in 1980, eventually serving as a director of two refugee camps. An individual named Nazar Muhammad Faqiri was a candidate for 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 ...

in 2010, but failed to win a seat. Nevertheless the office of the Attorney General investigated whether he was involved in election irregularities.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Faqiri, Mohammad Nazar Living people 1955 births Afghan expatriates in Pakistan Members of the House of Elders (Afghanistan) Afghan refugees Date of birth missing (living people)