hopelessly trying to rehabilitate the ministry at the face of the ensuing civil war that started with Prof. Rabbani's government. Member by Proxy; Supreme Leadership Council; Islamic State of Afghanistan, Afghanistan – 1992–1993 Member of Staff of Afghan Resistance Leadership Delegations; Islamic Conference, Islamabad -1978 Islamic Conference, Kuwait – 1984 Member of Delegation of Afghan Resistance Leaders; Guests to the European Parliament, Strasburg, France – 1980. United Nations 40th Anniversary, New York City, USA – 1985 Professional affiliations Founding Member, Member of Board of Directors and President (2007–2009); Society of Afghan Architects & Engineers (SAAE); Afghanistan Founding Member; Structural Engineering Institute (SEI); USA Member; American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); USA Member; Society of Afghan Engineers (SAE); USA Member; International Who-is-Who of Professionals, 1997 Professional work experience Professor in Civil Engineering; King Faisal University; Saudi Arabia, (1977–1987) Volunteer Work with the Afghan Resistance Against Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan; Peshawar, Pakistan, (1987–1992) Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Vocational Training; Islamic State of Afghanistan, (1992–1993) Professor in Civil Engineering; Ahmadshah Abdali University for Afghan Refugees, Peshawar, Pakistan, (1994–1995) Senior Structural Engineer; Civil Services, Inc. (Engineering Design Consultants), Jacksonville, Florida, USA, (1996–2001) Project Manager – Specialist III; Department of Building & Development, Loudoun County Government, Virginia, USA, (2001–2004) Director of Design, QC/QA and Capacity Building Divisions; Technologists, Inc., Kabul, Afghanistan, (2004–2009) Publications "Nonlinear Analysis of the Aperiodic Responses of Beams", Proceedings of the Sixth Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, 1977. Co-authors: D.T. Mook, A.H. Nayfeh. "Nonlinear Detuning of Resonant Structural Vibrations", Proceedings of the Seventh Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, 1979. Co-authors: D.T. Mook, A.H. Nayfeh. "Model Couplings in the Aperiodic Responses of Beams", Submitted to the Eighth Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, 1981. Partial results of research on Nonlinear Vibrations included in the authoritative book on the subject titled "Nonlinear Oscillations" by A.H. Nayfeh and D.T. Mook, Wiley Interscience, N.Y., 1979. References 1972 births Living people Afghan engineers Afghan expatriates in Pakistan Afghan expatriates in the United States Pashtun people Mujahideen members of the Soviet–Afghan War Governors of Kabul Province Government ministers of Afghanistan Academic staff of King Faisal University