Toorpekai was elected to represent Zabul Province in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of its National Legislature, in 2005.
[1] A report on Kandahar prepared at the Navy Postgraduate School described her working with the UNAMA on health care.
[1] It stated that she was a high school graduate.
It stated she sat on the Communications Committee.
It stated she was a member of the Pashtun ethnic group, from the Suliemankhel tribe.