Azra Jafari | |
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عذرا جعفری | |
 Azra Jafari, Nili mayor, addressing the audience in 2012 | |
| Mayor of Nili, Afghanistan | |
| In office December 2008 – January 2014 | |
| President | Hamid Karzai |
| Governor | Qurban Ali Oruzgani |
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| Born | Azra Jafari 1978[1] Afghanistan |
| Residence(s) | Nili, Daykundi |
| Occupation | Mayor, writer |
| Award(s) | Meeto Memorial Award for Young South Asians 2011[2] |
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Azra Jafari (Persian: عذرا جعفری) is an Afghan politician and women rights advocate who became the first female mayor in Afghanistan appointed by President Hamid Karzai in December 2008. She became the mayor of Nili, a town in Daykundi Province of Afghanistan. She belongs to the Hazara ethnic group.
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