His father was a journalist in the daily
Anis during the communist régime. After the take-over of the major part of Afghanistan by the
Taliban in 1996, he fled with his family to
Tajikistan and thereafter to the Netherlands in 1997, where they were granted
asylum. He went to live in
Mantgum, which is a village in the province of
Friesland. On 10 July 2002, he became a member of the Socialist Party and of its youth organisation
ROOD. On 16 March 2006 he was elected into the
municipal council of
Leeuwarden. He was a councillor until 28 January 2008. In the same month he became a member of the
Dutch House of Representatives, succeeding
Rosita van Gijlswijk, thus becoming the youngest Dutch MP ever. His term in the House ended on 23 March 2017. Bashir stated that he would refuse to swear an oath of loyalty to the soon-to-be-crowned Prince of Orange, Willem Alexander. Bashir is a
republican and is against the
Dutch monarchy. Bashir studied
mathematics and
physics at the
University of Groningen (
BSc) and
tax law at
Leiden University. == References ==