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Ghulam Farooq Wardak (born ) is a politician in Afghanistan, formerly serving as the Minister of Education. He was appointed to that position by Afghan PresidentHamid Karzai on October 11, ^[1] On June , Farooq Wardak was returned to Afghanistan after temporary self-exile following the Taliban takeover of the country in August ^[2]

Early life

Farooq Wardak was born in the Saydabad Wardak District, in the Wardak Province of Afghanistan.

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He is an ethnic Pashtun from the Wardak tribe, who is fluent in Pashto, Persian, English and Urdu.^[3] His primary education was from a government elementary school in Wardak Province. He completed his high school in Kabul City.

With the collapse of President Daud Khan's regime, Wardak joined the jihad against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan with Hezb-e Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

After the end of the first Taliban regime in late , Farooq Wardak has continued to support Hezb-e Islami