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Hanan Habibzai was born in 1979 in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan.
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He was less than a year old when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. His family entered Pakistan as refugees and he grew up in a refugee camp near Peshawar. After completing his secondary education in Peshawar, he studied at Kabul University.
Following the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, Habibzai began working with the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service as a correspondent and as a freelance reporter for Reuters in the north of Afghanistan.
In the beginning of 2007, he moved to the British Broadcasting Corporation Kabul office as a broadcast and online producer and senior reporter and continuing his work there. Habibzai is known as one of the key critics of warlords and war criminals in the country who are still holding power.
He is also known as a short story writer in Pashto language prose and literature notes.
