Career
He was elected to represent Kandahar Province in Afghanistan"s Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of its National Legislature, in 2005. A report on Kandahar prepared at the Navy Postgraduate School stated he is first deputy speaker, and that he is related to President Hamid Karzai through marriage, and that he is a high school graduate. Mohammad Arif Khan Noorzai was born in 1959 at Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
Whilst going to school at the province during his early life, he studied Faculty of Agriculture at Kabul University but was unable to complete his studies due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
His family moved during the war towards Pakistan where they settled before returning back to Afghanistan soon after.
