veiled4allah: the woman who would be president of Afghanistan veiled4allah: the woman who would be president of AfghanistanMany of the women appear to be moved by her appeal. "We want someone who can help people," says Asefah, a 40-year-old mother of five daughters. "We want a good future for our children. Because she is a woman, she can understand the problems of women."
Jalal is not considered likely to win, but she has already beat the odds against women's advancement. Fewer than 20 percent of Afghanistan's women can read and write, and young women in rural regions are still denied education.
Her activism began shortly after she graduated from Kabul University's medical school, she said in an interview in her office, a dim apartment on the east side of Kabul built in the 1980s, during the Soviet occupation. She saw her patients suffering from social and economic conditions she could not solve as a doctor, and despite vehement objections from her parents, brothers and sisters -- mostly well-to-do professionals who live outside Afghanistan -- she turned to politics.
"In the beginning, they couldn't digest it," she says. "They were worried. They were annoyed that I did not have a party or money or military support."
Her goals are simple. "I want my people to be healthy and happy," she says. "I want my government to be responsive and democratic."
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