Hanan Habibzai

Hanan Habibzai (b. 1979) is an Afghan journalist and writer.

Biography

Early life and education

Hanan Habibzai was born in 1979 in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan. He was a less then a year old when the
Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. His family entered Pakistan as refugees and he grew up in a refugee camp near Peshawar. After completing his secondary education in Peshawar, he studied at Kabul University.

Career

Following the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, Habibzai began working with the BBC World Service as a correspondent and as a freelance reporter for Reuters in the north of Afghanistan. In the beginning of 2007, he moved to the BBC Kabul office as a broadcast and online producer and senior reporter and continuing his work there.

Habibzai is known as one of the key critics of warlords and war criminals in the country who are still holding power.He is also known as a kind and feeling short story writer in Pashto language prose and literature notes. Thousands of his social and literature articles have been published in different afghan magazines, news papers and WebPages. His two books have been also published in Afghanistan and one of his books, which delivers the story of the looting of antiquities] in the northern region of Afghanistan by warlords and war criminals is very famous. This book is the part of investigation that has been done by Hanan Habibzai for a series of special programs to the BBC Pashto service. This book has pushed the government of Afghanistan to deploy hundreds of afghan army soldiers to protect the remnants of historical places in the Balkh and Jowazjan provinces.

Published works

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