Mr. Yousef Pashtun
Minister of Urban Development
Mohammad Yousef Pashtun was born in Kandahar on November 15th, 1947. He completed his secondary studies at Ahmad Shah Baba High School, graduating in 1965. In 1966, he began his studies at the School of Engineering at Kabul University. The year after he received a USAID/Kabul University scholarship to attend the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, where he later earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and two Masters Degrees, one in Architecture (1973) and the other in Urban Design and Planning (1977).
Mr. Pashtun has taught at Kabul University’s Department of Architecture, served four years in an Afghan resistance group, and worked for almost a decade with NGOs supporting Afghan refugees and Afghan development. He also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Loya Jirga movement. In 2002, he was appointed Minister of Urban Development and Housing under the Transitional Government, and a year later, he was appointed Governor of Kandahar Province. He was appointed Minister of Urban Development and Housing in December 2004.
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