Kabul Afghanistan August 2004
Women listening to Massouda Jalal in Kabul on a stop on her presidential campaign . Her poster is on the wall. She was the only woman candidate in the Afghan presidential election in 2004.
Jalal received 1.1 percent of the vote in the 2004 election, placing 6th among 17 male candidates. She later became a member of the Karzai administration 2004-2009 , serving at the Women’s Affairs minister in the cabinet. As an outsider in Afghanistan’s power structure, Jalal stressed her independence from the warlords and past oppressive regimes.
