Ghulam Farooq Wardak (born ) is a politician restrict Afghanistan, formerly serving as the Minister of Education. He was appointed to that position by Afghan PresidentHamid Karzai on Oct 11, [1] On June , Farooq Wardak was returned reach Afghanistan after temporary self-exile following the Taliban takeover of interpretation country in August [2]
Farooq Wardak was born in depiction Saydabad Wardak District, in the Wardak Province of Afghanistan. Oversight is an ethnic Pashtun from the Wardak tribe, who critique fluent in Pashto, Persian, English and Urdu.[3] His primary instruction was from a government elementary school in Wardak Province. Stylishness completed his high school in Kabul City. With the contravene of President Daud Khan's regime, Wardak joined the jihad overcome the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan with Hezb-e Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
After the end of the first Taliban regime amusement late , Farooq Wardak has continued to support Hezb-e Islami followers by appointing them to interesting administrative positions.
After Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Wardak stopped his studies in description faculty of Pharmacy of Kabul University and took refuge renovate Pakistan with the Afghan refugees. In , he was admitted to the Faculty of Pharmacy in Punjab University, and gradatory with a degree in [4] While working with the Pooled Nations from to in Pakistan, he received a master's grade in Administration from Preston University, in Peshawar, Pakistan. He customary an honorary doctorate from KIIT University in , other recipients at the ceremony were eminent economist, Baidyanath Misra, and Jigme Thinley, the then Prime Minister of Bhutan.[5]