State Bar & Bar Associations
Jun. 7, 2002
Golden Gate Names Winner of Afghan Scholarship
SAN FRANCISCO - Nasrina Bargzie's unusual path to law school began in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Her father, an educated landowner, was taken as a prisoner by communist authorities before she was born. He was executed without ever laying eyes on her. As an infant she traveled with her surviving extended family by camel from her war-torn home to Pakistan. From there, they landed in snowy New Hampshire, where her mother and grandmother worked low-paying textile jobs to hold the family together.
Her father, an educated landowner, was taken as a prisoner by communist authorities before she was born. He was executed without ever laying eyes on her. As an infant she traveled with her sur...
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