Fatima Aziz

Fatima Aziz (; ; 1973 – 12 March 2021) was an Afghan physician and politician. In 2005, she was elected to the lower house of parliament as representative of Kunduz province in Afghanistan's first free parliamentary election in decades. She was re-elected in the 2010 and 2018 elections. She served as an MP until her death from cancer in 2021.

Career For 13 years, Aziz worked in maternal–fetal medicine in Wazir Akbar Khan and Malalai hospitals in Kabul. She also worked for non-governmental organizations and the UNHCR. In the aftermath of the 2001 Afghan War, Aziz was elected as an independent member of parliament (MP) to the lower house of parliament, representing Kunduz province. As representative of Kunduz, Aziz criticised the National Directorate of Security after a series of coordinated Taliban attacks in 2012. She provided information to the international media during the Battle of Kunduz in 2015. She fled the city with her family due to the battle. While the city was occupied by the Taliban, she campaigned for the city's liberation to the Afghan government and international community, while drawing attention to the humanitarian situation on the ground. Aziz said that voter turnout in Kunduz for the 2019 Afghan presidential election was low due to problems with security in the region. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan, she believed corruption and government failures caused a shortage in oxygen tanks.

Personal life and death Aziz's first language was Dari and she also spoke Pashto, English, and Urdu. She died of cancer on 12 March 2021, in a hospital in Switzerland.