Wazir and her family fled Afghanistan when she was six. Now 27, she has unseated a four-term incumbent in the primary and could become the first refugee to hold office in the state
At age six, Safiya Wazir and her family fled war and persecution in Afghanistan as the Taliban seized control of her native Baghlan province. At 16, she arrived in the United States with no English after spending more than a decade as a refugee in Uzbekistan. At 22, she became an American citizen. And now, at 27, she has unseated a four-term New Hampshire state representative in a Democratic party primary.
Wazir defeated 66-year-old incumbent Dick Patten. If she can win the general election in November, she will become the first refugee to hold office in the state.
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