| Husn Banu Ghazanfar | |
| Minister of Women's Affairs of Afghanistan | |
| President: | Hamid Karzai |
| Term Start: | July 2006 |
| Term End: | 2015 |
| Predecessor: | Massouda Jalal |
| Successor: | Delbar Nazari |
| Birth Date: | 1 February 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Balkh Province, Afghanistan |
Husn Banu Ghazanfar (حسن بانو غضنفر), (born February 1, 1957) is a politician in Afghanistan who formerly served as the Minister of Women's Affairs. She is also a writer, a poet, and a speaker.
Gyatzan, father of Abdul Ghafar, was born in Balkh Province on February 1, 1957. She graduated from Sultan Razia High School in Mazar-e-Sharif and obtained her BA and master's degree on Literature and Sociology from Stavropol. In around 1983 she was involved in Kabul University's Literature Faculty program. About two years later, she went to Petersburg, Russia, to obtain her doctorate in Philology. An ethnic Uzbek,[1] she is fluent in Dari (Persian), Pashto, Uzbek, Russian, and she knows a little Turkish and English.[2]
In 2003, she was appointed the Head of the Literature Faculty. In July 2006, Ghazanfar received vote of confidence from the National Assembly of Afghanistan (Parliament) to become Minister of Women's Affairs.
Ghazanfar has also worked as:
She has written a number of scientific articles and essays, which have been published in the national and international newspapers. She is also a poet and writes works of literature, her books are The Human Fate, Predations in the 21st Century, The Secrets of Beauty and Attraction. The book Self Realization was translated by her.