Hekmat Karzai

In addition to the main office in Kabul, CAPS has regional branches in Kandahar, Khost, Parwan and Helmand.

As a result of his effort, CAPS provided pro-bono legal assistance to thousands of security detainees throughout the country.

Karzai is considered an authority on Afghanistan and has been invited to address the European Parliament and many think tanks including the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) and Centre for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.) He has lectured in prestigious institutions of higher learning such as Harvard and Tufts University on security and state building.

His dissertation on ‘Strengthening Security in Contemporary Afghanistan: Coping with the Taliban’ was published by the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

From 2004 till 2005, he served as an international fellow at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University where he conducted research on terrorism, violent extremism, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Al Qaeda movement.