Mawlawi Shahzada Shahid was elected to represent Kunar Province in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of its National Legislature, in 2005. mirror
A report from the Navy Postgraduate School on Kunar stated that he was a religious scholar who studied in Pakistan. It mentioned that he was "associated with Sayyaf or Hezbi Islami (unclear) ". It also noted that he served on the counter-narcotics committee.
In 2010, Shahzada joined a new group of legislators who called themselves the "Reformists".
According to Pahjwok Afghan News, he was re-elected to the Wolesi Jirga in 2010.
In February 2012, Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed Shahzada to lead a delegation to investigate the deaths of civilians in Konar and Kapisa provinces caused by NATO forces.
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