Ms. Razia Sadat Mangal MP
Parliament:
Wolesi Jirga, National Assembly of Afghanistan Ms. Sadat Mangal is member of the Wolesi Jirga representing Paktiya province. She is also the President of the first women-owned construction company in Afghanistan.
In 2000, Razia joined D.O.R.A (Development Organization for the Revival of Afghanistan), and subsequently became the Director from 2004 until to today. Under her supervision, D.O.R.A successfully completed 140 different projects - most of them were in the Southern region of Afghanistan which has shown that women can work alongside men.
Ms. Safia Saddiqi MP
Parliament:
The Parliament of Afghanistan Ms.Safia Saddiqi is a member of the Afghanistan’s Lower House of the Parliament representing the south eastern province of Nangahar.
Ms. Safia Saddiqi was once forced to leave Afghanistan and spent a few years in a refugee camp in Pakistan before emigrating to Canada. After she returned to Afghanistan, she became a member of the loya jirga (a representative body in Afghanistan convened to adopt the Constitution in 2004).
Ms. Siddiqi holds a MA in Law from the University in Kabul. Apart from her political activity, Ms. Saddiqi is known all over Afghanistan for her bold poetry works. She creates and recites poems in the Pashto language.
Ms. Janelle Saffin MP
Parliament:
Parliament of Australia, House of Representatives
Political Party:
Australian Labor Party Ms. Saffin has founded many local initiatives and programs, including being one of the founders of the North Coast Breast Screening Program, and represented the New South Wales in the NSW Upper House from 1995 to 2003. Recently, she has worked as Senior Political Advisor to Timor-Leste's Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, H.E. President Jose Ramos-Horta. In that role Ms. Saffin was Liaison Officer with the International Stablisation Forces (ISF) including the Australian Troops deployed from 3RAR to Timor-Leste, and the National Police Forces from deploying countries. Ms. Saffin was elected as Member for Page at the 2007 federal election, and is a member of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade and Chair of the Trade Committee.
Dr. Mohammad Saleh Saljuqi
Parliament:
Wolesi Jirga (House of Representatives), National Assembly of Afghanistan Dr. Saljuqi graduated from the Faculty of Medicine from Herat University in 1999 and continued on at this institution as a medical professor from 2000 until 2004. Since then, he has served as the Deputy Secretary of the Wolesi Jirga in the National Assembly of Afghanistan.
Mr. Jacek Saryusz-Wolski MEP
Parliament:
European Parliament/Poland
Political Party:
Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats Mr. Saryusz-Wolski is a Polish diplomat, politician and MEP. He was formerly a professor at the University of Łódź and is an expert on European Communities. Mr. Saryusz-Wolski was nominated the first Polish plenipotentiary for European integration and foreign aid when this office was created by the prime minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki in 1991. He held this position until 1996. In 2000 he was nominated Secretary of the European Integration Committee. Mr. Saryusz-Wolski played an important role in the negotiations in Nice in 2000. He was elected an MEP in June 2004, and held the position of Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2004-2007. He has been the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs since 2007 and is also a member of the Budget Committee and the Delegation for relations with Russia.
Mr. George Savage MLA
Parliament:
Northern Ireland Assembly
Political Party:
Ulster Unionist Party Mr. Savage is a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. A native of Donacloney, he was elected in 2007 to the Northern Ireland Assembly as an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) member for Upper Bann. He is the Chairman of the Upper Bann Unionist Association and Deputy Chairman of Agricultural and Rural Development Committee. Mr. Savage is also a member of the Craigavon Borough Council, the Drainage Council for Northern Ireland, the European Union Committee of Religions, the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the Regional Development Committee.
Dr. John Sentamu, The Archbishop of York
Parliament:
The UK Parliament, House of Lords John Tucker Mugabi Sentamu was born in the Uganda’s Buffalo clan on the 10th June 1949. Following his ordination in 1979 he served as Assistant Chaplain at Selwyn College, Cambridge. From 1979-1982 he was Chaplain at HM Remand Centre Latchmere House and Curate of St Andrew's, Ham in the Diocese of Southwark. From 1982-1983 he was Curate of St Paul's Church, Herne Hill, in South London and from 1983-1984 Priest-in-Charge at Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill and Parish Priest of St Matthias Upper Tulse Hill. He then became Vicar of the joint benefice of Holy Trinity and St Matthias from 1984-1986. Between 1987 and 1989 he was also Priest-in-Charge of St Saviour Brixton Hill. He was appointed Bishop for Stepney in 1996, Bishop for Birmingham in 2002 and Archbishop of York in 2005. He is Primate of England and Metropolitan, a member of the House of Lords and a Privy Councillor.
Mr. Jafar Shah MP
Parliament:
Provincial Assembly of the North-West Frontier Province
Political Party:
Awami National Party Mr. Shah is from a small village, Shahgram, Madyan in the Swat district of the North-West Frontier province of Pakistan. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree from Peshawar University in 1977-78, followed by a degree in Law from the University of Karachi in 1981. After practicing law in his village, Mr. Shah joined Intercooperation, a Swiss NGO working in Pakistan. He began his career with Intercooperation as Social Organisor and, after working for this organization for twelve years on different positions, finally acted as Head of the Programme.
Mr. Shah is from a small village, Shahgram, Madyan in the Swat district of the North-West Frontier province of Pakistan. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree from Peshawar University in 1977-78, followed by a degree in Law from the University of Karachi in 1981. After practicing law in his village, Mr. Shah joined Intercooperation, a Swiss NGO working in Pakistan. He began his career with Intercooperation as Social Organisor and, after working for this organization for twelve years on different positions, finally acted as Head of the Programme.
Mr. Shah is from a small village, Shahgram, Madyan in the Swat district of the North-West Frontier province of Pakistan. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree from Peshawar University in 1977-78, followed by a degree in Law from the University of Karachi in 1981. After practicing law in his village, Mr. Shah joined Intercooperation, a Swiss NGO working in Pakistan. He began his career with Intercooperation as Social Organisor and, after working for this organization for twelve years on different positions, finally acted as Head of the Programme.
Dr. Nosh Afrin Shahab Dowlaty MP
Parliament:
Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Dr. Shahab Dowlaty was born in 1970 in the Ghor province and graduated from Kabul Medical University in 1992. She worked as a doctor for the Red Cross Agency in Ghor province and as a gynecologist in Herat hospital for several years.
During the transitional terms of the Afghan government in 2002 and 2003, she was elected as a representative of the Ghor province. In 2006, she was elected to the Afghan Parliament.
Mr. Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao
Parliament:
National Assembly of Pakistan
Political Party:
Pakistan's People Party Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, a veteran Pakistani politician, is a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and the current Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao) (PPP-S). He served as the Interior Minister of Pakistan from 2004 to 2007 besides which he has held a number of portfolios in the Federal cabinet including Minister for Water and Power, Minister for Kashmir Affairs & Northern Areas and States & Frontier Regions, Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination, and Minister for Defence Production.
He has served as the chief executive of the North West Frontier Province (now known as the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) twice having been elected as the Chief Minister in 1988 and then again in 1994. Prior to this he has also served as a member in the Provincial Cabinet of the NWFP as Minister for Industries, Minerals, Local Government and Rural Development.
In 2007, he was nominated as Chairman of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Peace Jirga in Kabul, an initiative to bring together politicians and community leaders to discuss peace and security between the two countries. Mr. Sherpao, being a pioneer advocate of this cause, had the honour of being the first Chairman of this Jirga.
Since actively entering politics in 1976, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has been elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan four times and to the Provincial Assembly of the NWFP seven times from different constituencies. He has also served as Leader of the Opposition in the NWFP Assembly, having been elected to this position on three occasions. In addition to this he has also been nominated by his political party as Parliamentary Leader both in the National Assembly and in the NWFP Provincial Assembly on a number of occasions. He is currently a serving member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
Having served as Provincial President of the Pakistan Peoples Party for over 20 years and then as the Central Senior Vice Chairman, he is now Chairman of his own faction of the PPP.
Prior to his political career, he has served in the Pakistan Army after having graduated from the Pakistan Military Academy with the 34th Long Course in 1965 and joining the Armoured Corps in the prestigious Probyn’s Horse Regiment. During his brief military career he served in a number of capacities and received distinctions in various courses. Mr. Sherpao has the honour of having served his Country by engaging in active battle in two wars in 1965 and then again in 1971. He ended his service of 12 years prematurely on the request of the then Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who asked him to join politics.
Mr Sherpao has had at least two attempts on his life by terrorists, both of which were suicide bomb attacks. He narrowly escaped both attempts but they left over 85 people dead and hundreds injured. He also lost his elder brother, the then NWFP Chief Minister, Hayat Muhammad Khan Sherpao to a terrorist bomb in 1973. Hayat Sherpao was a founding leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party and former Governor of the NWFP. His assassination is considered by all in Pakistan as a national tragedy.
