Sayed Zafar Hashemi

Sayed Zafar Hashemi
Deputy spokesperson of the Government of Afghanistan
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 May 2015
President	Ashraf Ghani
Preceded by	Aimal Faizi
Personal details
Born	1986 Afghanistan
Nationality	Afghanistan
Political party	Independent
Alma mater	University of Maryland Johns Hopkins University

Sayed Zafar Hashemi (Persian: Persian: سید ظفر هاشمی‎‎) is an Afghan journalist who is the current deputy spokesperson of the President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani.^[1]

An ethnic Hazara, Hashemi fled Afghanistan as a child to Pakistan. He later resided in the U.S. to study, achieving a bachelor degree in political science at the University of Maryland and a masters degree in public administration at Johns Hopkins University. Returning to Afghanistan, Hashemi was a journalist and a radio presenter for Nawa 103.1 FM in 2007, and later at AWAZ.^[2] He later became a television presenter and journalist at Voice of America (VOA) in Washington DC.^[3]

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