Board of Director

• Shafiqullah Shaiq is the president of Shaiq Network/Media Center a private organization based in Jalalabad city (eastern Afghanistan) running a private TV channel, two private radio stations, and one newspaper.
• In 1994 he started the journey of an organization in the education sector. Today the organization is running one private TV station, three Private Radio Stations, a News Paper, and a Film Production Agency.
• In addition, Eng. Shaiq is the Director of Afghanistan’s Independent Media Association, an association of Private Radio and TV networks mainly working in the provinces of Afghanistan.
• Shaiq has served the Afghan Nation in different fields, including education, health, construction, media, film production, social services, promoting sports, and the role of women in Afghan society.

• Mrs. Shaiq has been a board member for Shaiq News Network since 2000. Besides board member, she is a supervisor for Nargis F.M radio since 2007. Nargis is the first-ever radio dedicated to women and their empowering programs in Nangarhar Province. Shallah Shaiq was the first woman to start her own private business through the Radio that is still operating to this date by its own expenses. The F.M radio covered all women-related issues and share them with people in a pleasant and beautiful language praised by its listeners. The Radio Staff also provided five hundred (500) women with short-term educational programs in journalism.

• Henna shaiq who is multilingual has a bachelor’s of Political Science and Public Administration from the American University of Afghanistan and a minor in law. Currently, She is seeking JD in the United States. She has more than five years of experience in journalism, leadership, media, communications, and Marketing. she was recognized as a recipient of the Honor Award, worked for human rights and women’s equality through journalism, Collaborated with government officials as Vice President of the Political Science Club, Served as Afghan Youth Representative at the South Asian Youth Conference, Led conversation and published paper on transitional justice in collaboration with Leipzig University and worked with the NSC in the media and communication’s department.

• Rahmatullah Shaiq is the Afghan Parolee Community Coordinator for the APA program at HIAS. Before joining HIAS in November 2021, he was a project manager at Shaiq Network, leading multiple projects for the U.S Government in Afghanistan. These projects’ primary role was to create Civic engagement with the government through Media and roundtable programs. Prior to that, he was a public relations officer and the Social Media Manager at Shaiq Network. In Addition, he has worked as an IT manager for a Radio network in Kabul, Afghanistan. Alongside his career, he worked with a nonprofit organization and helped provide aid to newly arrived immigrants with shelter, housing, and other resources. Mr. Shaiq has also organized multiple tournaments with the primary message being peace in Afghanistan by hosting a Cricket tournament for the youth and a football tournament. Mr. Shaiq was a student at the American University of Afghanistan and has transferred to The University of Maryland to pursue his bachelor’s in Business Administration. Outside of his job, Mr. Shaiq is creating programs in Afghanistan to highlight the daily struggles of the Afghan population online.’

currently the managing director of Nargi’s radio which is special for women as he has done and has been doing professional and journalistic work in the related field. Mr. Rahmani has published articles, analyzes, reports, and literary articles in a variety of journals in eastern Afghanistan including Sharq Magazine. 1. Narcissus Breaths This one is his first published work. This identity has been collected and written by Shafiqullah Rahmani and it was published by Nargi’s radio in the year 1391 in Nangarhar. This identity represents the biographies and poetics examples of 62 female poets from the eastern regions of present Afghanistan. The number of pages is 174. The majority of these poets are born in the last decade (2001-2011) whose emotions are young and warm. This identity was published in 2,000 volumes in Kabul. 2. Journalism Guide This is also another unpublished work that discusses the foundations of journalism, genres, ethics, and various journalistic topics. 3. The History of Pashto Literature This textbook is an unpublished work that covers the Pashto language and literature from past to present. 4. You Were Disloyal This is an unpublished novel and its content covers different aspects of social life like love, hate, helplessness, and other problems of society. 5. Research It is also a textbook which is not been published yet. It contains the best topics on general research and literary research in particular. 6. Folklore and Children’s Literature This is a university textbook work that is being taught as a chapter but it’s ready to be printed. This work was also the subject of his master’s thesis. At the beginning of the book, folklore, folkloric, and children’s literature have been discussed. 7. Identity of Students’ Poets This literary identity contains the poetry of children who are studying in various schools. It was done with the collaboration of UNICEF, the Department of Education, and Sharq TV in Nangarhar. In addition to Mr. Rahmani’s above mentioned published and unpublished works and writings, daily writing is a journalistic genre, which is consisting headlines, news, reports, or different scripts for publications, but these journalistic writings are commonly no longer existed and get disappeared as soon as the broadcasts finish. Over the course of his 15-year career, he has written hundreds of scripts but when the broadcast has finished, they have vanished. Mr. Rahmani writes when it is needed and he is very interested to write. But in the least deal of time, he has the ability and interest to write political, literary, and social topics but owing to lack of time, he only writes the necessary topics related to his own affairs.