Jamila Mujahed is a journalist of

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

Career

In 2001, she broadcast the news that the

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regime had fallen. Hamida Ghafour, writing in ''

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was found ...

'' reported that she had been appointed a delegate to the Constitutional Loya Jirga. She was not, however, on the official list of delegates. In October 2002, the

United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy of the United State ...

awarded her a liberty award. Mujahid had been a television journalist before the Taliban's seizure of power.

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