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In 2005, Yasini was elected to the Lower House of the Afghan
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Yasini was a religious scholar, but his uncle took hardly part in the battles during jihad, his famous practice is well known among locals, as he mastered the war and fought the
Russian army as they reached the Mashreqi battlefield. His family is well known in Nangarhar Province.
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from 1993 to 2001 as a social and political activist. After the fall of the
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