Zeenat Karzai

Zeenat Karzai
Zeenat Karzai in 2005
First Lady of Afghanistan
In role
22 December 2001 – 29 September 2014
PresidentHamid Karzai
Preceded byVacant
Succeeded byRula Ghani
Personal details
Born
Zeenat Quraishi

1970 (age 53–54)
NationalityAfghan
Spouse
(m. 1999)
Children4
Alma materKabul University
ReligionSunni Islam

Zeenat Quraishi Karzai (born 1970) is the wife of former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and was the First Lady of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014. Originally from the city of Kandahar, she moved to Kabul, where she lived at the Arg (the Presidential palace) with her husband and their four children.