Aimal Faizi

Aimal Faizi (Persian: Persian: ایمل فیضی) is an Afghan journalist and columnist, who served as the spokesperson of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai from 2011 to 2014.

He studied French at the Afghan-Franco school in Kabul, but fled the civil war in 1994.

[3] Back in Afghanistan he worked at the state-run news agency Bakhtar and Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), before being appointed as the president's spokesman after the resignation of Wahid Omar.

[4] He held his post until the end of Karzai's government in September 2014, succeeded by Sayed Zafar Hashemi.

In 2015 he started writing articles for Al Jazeera English.