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Rangina Kargar

Afghan politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ18637795 ↗
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Rangina Kargar (Dari: رنگینه کارگر‬, born March 22, 1985) is the member of Afghan Parliament (Wolesi Jirga). She is also Secretary of Parliamentary Committee on National Economy, NGOs, Rural Development, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry.

Biography

Rangina Omar, the daughter of Said Omar, was born in Mazar i Sharif, in 1985. She lost her mother when she was only 5 years old and had to manage a big family by herself. In 2008, she married Fahim Kargar, the Chief of Staff of the National Security Council of Afghanistan. She has four children. She finished her primary education in Ayesha Afghan School and then she continued her studies in Sitara Lycee of Mazar-i-Sharif. After passing the Concor Exam, she attended Balkh University in 2003, and graduated with BA (Economics) in 2007.

Social life

Kargar has worked as a finance officer and English teacher in one of the private schools in Mazar-i-Sharif. Kargar went to Andkhoy after her marriage, and resumed her social activities there.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rangina Kargar” is afghan politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rangina, Kargar and Afghan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2008, 2003, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Rangina, Kargar and Afghan is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18637795. The first chronological checks are 1985, 2008, 2003 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rangina Kargar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.