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Mohammad Fahim Rostahi, a fourth-year student of political science and law at Kabul University, was impatient with the slow pace at which the government was developing its Code of Conduct. A parliamentary intern through a program run by the National Democratic Institute (NDI), he had been assigned to take minutes at the special committee appointed to draft the Code. Frustrated with the committee’s lengthy deliberations and lack of results, Fahim decided to draft his own Code. After conducting research on the internet and at various libraries, he completed a draft and submitted it to his supervisor at the Department of Legal and Pro-fessional Studies of the Wolesi Jirga. His supervisor quickly recog-nized the value of the draft and sent it to the secretary general, urging him to submit to the special committee.