Jamila Mujahed is a journalist of

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bord ...

Career

In 2001, she broadcast the news that the

Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, jihadist, and Pas ...

regime had fallen. Hamida Ghafour, writing in ''

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'' 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 State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government responsible for the country's fore ...

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

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