Khushnood Nabizada

Nabizada was born on March 27, 1987, in Shibar District of Bamyan Province in central Afghanistan. He is an ethnic Hazara and belongs to the Shia Muslim community. Around age eight, his family moved to Puli Khumri in Baghlan Province. During his fifth grade, Nabizada and his family fled to Rawalpindi, Pakistan, due to Taliban rule in Afghanistan. He returned to Afghanistan in 2003 during the presidency of Hamid Karzai. == Education ==

Nabizada graduated from Habibia High School in Kabul in 2006. He obtained a bachelor's degree in business administration from Kardan University in 2012. He later earned a master's degree in Global Affairs and Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. == Career ==

Khaama Press In October 2010, Nabizada founded Khaama Press in Kabul. The news agency publishes content in English, Persian, and Pashto. According to Afghanistan's Access to Information Commission, Khaama Press was the most visited news website in Afghanistan in 2020. Other work From 2007 to early 2014, Nabizada worked as a senior business executive at the Insurance Corporation of Afghanistan. In 2016, Nabizada was appointed chief of staff to Afghanistan's Ministry of Urban Development and Housing under President Ashraf Ghani. In 2020, he became chief of staff to the State Ministry for Peace under Minister Sadat Mansoor Naderi. == Assassination attempt ==

On February 1, 2021, Nabizada survived a roadside bomb attack in Kabul's 10th police district while traveling to work. The U.S. Embassy in Kabul condemned the attack. == Resettlement in the United States ==

In August 2021, during Operation Allies Refuge, Nabizada and his family were evacuated from Afghanistan to the United States. They initially spent nearly five months at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin before being resettled in Richmond, Virginia, in December 2021. In his account published by the Richmond Times-Dispatch in January 2022, Nabizada wrote: "Emigration has never been my fantasy, but a compulsion to escape death." == Personal life ==

Nabizada is married to Razia and has three children: two daughters, Artisa and Armita, and one son, Arash. == Honors ==

In December 2024, Nabizada was inducted into two academic honor societies: Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, and Beta Gamma Sigma, the International Business Honor Society. == References ==