Afghan Biographies

Nijrabi, Ghulam Farooq


Name Nijrabi, Ghulam Farooq
Ethnic backgr. Tajik
Date of birth 1954
Function/Grade Candidate 2019 Presidential Election
History and Biodata

2. Previous Function:
Presidential election Candidate 2019

3. Biodata:
Dr. Ghulam Farooq Nijrabi Nejrabi was born 1954 in the village of Sherwani (Nijrab District) in Kapisa province. He is a medical lecturer and pediatric surgeon. The ethnic Tajik trained medical students at the Indira Gandhi hospital in India and returned to lecture in Kabul University in 1983.

Nijrabi has been working as a doctor for the last 25 years after graduating from the Kabul University. He is the head of Hezb-e-Istiqlal-e-Afghanistan party. He was a candidate in the presidential elections 2005 with his Vice-presidents: Abdul Fatah, Abdul Hanan. Activists of Hezb-e-Istiqlal campaigned for him in the northern provinces of Takhar, Kunduz and Faryab, the central provinces of Kapisa, Parwan, Bamian, Ghazni and Wardak, in the southern province of Logar and the eastern province of Nangarhar.

An ethnic Tajik, Ghulam Faruq Nejrabi is a surgeon from Kapisa Province. His running mates are Sharifullah and Mohammad Sharif Babakarkhel.

Currently he works as a pediatric surgeon at a private clinic in Kabul.

Nejrabi is the third time running for presidency in the 2019 election. His first and second running-mates are respectively: 

  • Sharifullah and Muhammad Sharif Babakarkhel


 

Hizb-e Istiglal-e Afghanistan (Freedom Party)
Leader: Ghulam Farooq Najrabi Telephone: 0799333448 Postal Address: Panjsad Family, Khair Khana near Al-Farooq Heathcare Clinic, Kabul, Afghanistan

Last Modified 2019-09-28
Established 2009-10-17