Abdul Bagi Baryal

Abdul Bagi Baryal
Nationality	Afghanistan
Occupation	legislator

Abdul Bagi Baryal came to serve to represent Ghazni Province in Afghanistan's Meshrano Jirga, the upper house of its National Legislature, in 2005.^[1] Abdul Bagi Baryal is a member of the Pashtun ethnic group. He was injured by a rocket during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, losing a leg and his vision. He was a refugee in Pakistan until 2002. He founded an organization for the disabled when he lived in Pakistan. He is a poet, and the editor of a magazine called "Bright Heart".

References

1. "Province: Ghazni" (PDF). Navy Postgraduate School. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-29.