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Zeenat Quraishi Karzai (born 1970) is the wife of former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and was the First Lady of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014. Originally from the city of Kandahar, she moved to Kabul, where she lived at the Arg (the Presidential palace) with her husband and their four children.
In 1999, Hamid Karzai married Zeenat Quraishi, a gynaecologist by profession who was working as a doctor with Afghan refugees living in Pakistan. They have a son, Mirwais, who was born in January 2007, a daughter, Malalai, born in 2012 and another daughter, Howsi, born in March 2014 in Gurgaon, India.
Oct 15, 2014 · KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, the Afghan first lady, Zeenat Karzai, was virtually invisible. Sequestered deep inside the high-walled presidential palace, she appeared to have...
Jul 30, 2017 · Ms. Ghani has taken up a much more public role as first lady than Zeenat Karzai, the wife of the previous president, Hamid Karzai.
Mar 27, 2014 · Throughout the time her husband has been in office, Zeenat Karzai has remained unengaged and hidden inside Arg — the Afghan presidential palace. But in many ways, this might not have been...
Aug 4, 2009 · Last year, Karzai’s wife, Zeenat, a gynecologist, saw a report on television about the rape of a very young girl and her family’s futile quest for justice. Karzai was horrified.
Mar 8, 2013 · Zinat Karzai, the 43-year-old wife of Hamid Karzai, is rarely seen in public, prompting criticism that she is not doing enough to further the cause of women's rights in her country....
