Anarkali Kaur Honaryar
Anarkali Kaur Honaryar is a Sikh Afghan politician. She is also a women's rights activist and a dentist, as well as a medical doctor.
There were only about 30,000 Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan, Anarkali Kaur Honaryar is one of them. She is the first non-Muslim member of National Assembly of Afghanistan.
Career
When the Taliban was ousted in 2001, Honaryar studied medicine at the Kabul University. She has been a member of the Loya Jirga which chose Afghanistan's interim government after the fall of the Taliban regime, and also an Afghan Constitution Committee member. In 2006, she became a member of Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.In 2010, Honaryar was elected to the country's Meshrano Jirga, and was the first non-Muslim woman to achieve the milestone, she left her post in mid-2015.
On 22 August 2021, she came to India along with the Indians rescued by Indian forces from Afghanistan amid the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021.