Career
He worked for a Swedish organization between 1986 and 1991, where he established clinics in remote areas. He worked at hospitals in Herat between 1992 to 1998. From 1996 to 1998 he directed the Noor Hospital.
He was Herat"s director of public health from 2001 to 2004.
He was from 1992 to 2005, concurrently, a faculty member at Kabul University"s medical school and the founding editor of an Afghan health magazine. He served on the emergency Loya Jirga that drafted Afghanistan"s new constitution.
