Shakiba Matin Hashemi is an

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who was elected to represent

Kandahar Province Kandahār ( ps, ; Kandahār, prs, ; ''Qandahār'') is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country, sharing a border with Pakistan, to the south. It is surrounded by Helmand in the west, Uruzga ...

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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 Ho ...

, the lower house of its National Legislature, in 2005. A report on Kandahar prepared at the

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stated that Hashemi sits on the Environment Committee; that she was a school principal prior to taking office; that her father sits on Kandahar's Provincial Council; and that she is a member of the

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. Hashemi was re-elected in

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with 641 votes. She was outspoken against

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and claimed to have been threatened by him. She also spoke out against

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, saying she was offered, and rejected, a bribe prior to the election. In 2012, Hashemi was a member of a parliamentary fact-finding mission investigating the

Kandahar massacre The Kandahar massacre, also called the Panjwai massacre, was a mass murder that occurred in the early hours of 11 March 2012, when United States Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales murdered 16 Afghan civilians and wounded six others in the Panjw ...

on 11 March 2012 in

Panjwayi District Panjwayi ( ps, پنجوايي; also spelled Panjwaye, Panjwaii, Panjway, Panjawyi, Panjwa'i, or Panjwai) is a district in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It is located about west of Kandahar. The district borders Helmand Province to the southwes ...

. Hashemi and Hamidzi Lali claimed that US troopers had raped two women before the massacre. The

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concluded that staff sergeant

Robert Bales Robert Bales (born June 30, 1973) is a former United States Army sniper who fatally shot or stabbed 16 Afghan civilians in a mass murder in Panjwayi District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on March 11, 2012 – an event known as the Kandahar ...

was the only person responsible for the shootings. In 2016, Hashemi was thanked by the Election and Transparency Watch Organization of Afghanistan for her contribution to the implementation of a program called "Enhancing Women's Status at the Local Level by Creating Better Links to Female Parliamentarians."

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