Shafiqa Habibi

Shafiqa Habibi is a journalist, television anchor, activist, and politician from Afghanistan. She is known for her work to support women journalists, and for her 2004 candidacy for Vice President of Afghanistan as the running mate of Abdul Rashid Dostum.

Personal life Shafiqa Habibi is from an affluent Ahmedzai Pashtun family. Although she grew up in Kabul, her family is from Logar province. She is married to Mahmoud Habibi, who served in various positions in the Afghanistan government. These roles included information minister to King Zahir Shah, and president of the Afghan senate under President Mohammad Najibullah. As of October 2016, Habibi was the head of the Afghan Women's Journalist Union.

In 1994, Habibi founded the Women's Radio and Television Broadcast Organization, to support women journalists.

Awards and recognition Habibi is known as a campaigner for human-rights and as a public intellectual. In 2005, she was among a thousand women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. was written.