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Habiba Sarabi

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Habiba Sarabi
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Habiba Sarabi is a Hazara haematologist and politician who in 2005 became the first woman to serve as a provincial governor in Afghanistan, in Bamyan.

Habiba Sarabi is a haematologist and politician. On 23 March 2005 she became governor of Bamyan, the first woman to hold a provincial governorship in Afghanistan.1 Sources differ on her birthplace.1

She received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2013.1

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  1. Wikipedia, Habiba Sarabi. ↩ ↩2 ↩3