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{{short description|Afghan linguist}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Fatana Najib.jpg
| caption = Najib in 2016
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|08|09|df=y}}
| nationality = [[Afghan people|Afghan]]
| occupation = Linguist
| term_label = In role
| office = [[First Lady of Afghanistan]]
| term_start = 20 September 1987
| term_end = 16 April 1992
| president = [[Mohammed Najibullah]]
| spouse = [[Mohammad Najibullah]]
| children = 3
}}
'''Fatana Najib''' (born 9 August 1953) is an Afghan [[Linguistics|linguist]] and former [[First Lady of Afghanistan]]. She served as First Lady from 30 September 1987 until 16 April 1992. She was the wife of [[People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan|PDPA]] general secretary and Afghan president [[Mohammad Najibullah]], who was murdered in 1996 by the [[Taliban]].<ref name="Sidiqee">{{cite web |last1=Sidiqee |first1=Mohammaed Naser |title=Afghanistan's First Lady: Emancipator or Conventionalist? |url=https://theglobepost.com/2018/06/07/afghanistan-emancipation-women-empowerment/ |website=The Globe Post |accessdate=4 September 2019 |date=7 June 2018}}</ref> During her period as First Lady, Najib provided support to families of servicemembers of the [[Afghan Armed Forces]], visiting the families of wounded soldiers.<ref name="Bashir">{{cite web |last1=Bashir |first1=Malali |title=The Real First Ladies of Afghanistan |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/10/31/the-real-first-ladies-of-afghanistan/ |website=Foreign Policy |accessdate=4 September 2019}}</ref>

Najib met the future Afghan leader when she was an eighth-grade student and he was her science tutor. They married on September 1, 1974 and had three daughters. Najib later became principal of the Russian-language Peace School in Kabul.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Earleen|first=Fisher|date=July 13, 1991|title=Najibullah Retains Control With Power and Pragmatism|url=https://apnews.com/article/560eca18e203900b824d674183c642fa|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-18|website=AP News}}</ref>

Najib and her three daughters fled Afghanistan in 1992 to live in exile in India. She has resided in India ever since,<ref name="SMPA">{{cite web |title=Taliban Violence: Murder, Mutilation and Terror |url=http://www.beaboutpeace.com/archives/2004/08/taliban_violenc.html |website=South Mountain Peace Action |accessdate=4 September 2019}}</ref> but the daughters, Heela (born 1977) and Moska (born 1984) have studied and worked abroad. Heela has worked and lived in Thailand<ref>{{Cite web|title=Heela Najibullah’s CV|url=http://blog.transnational.org/2012/12/heela-najibullahs-cv/|access-date=2021-08-18|language=en-US}}</ref> and currently lives in Switzerland where she graduated from [[Franklin College (Switzerland)|Franklin College]] and now studies for a Ph.D. in religious studies at the [[University of Zurich]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Heela NAJIBULLAH {{!}} PhD in Religious Studies {{!}} University of Zurich, Zürich {{!}} UZH {{!}} Religionswissenschaftliches Seminar|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Heela-Najibullah|access-date=2021-08-18|website=ResearchGate|language=en}}</ref> Moska was also educated in Switzerland and lives and works in Singapore.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Centre|first=Sussex Asia|title=Ms Moska Najib : Associated Academics : ... : Sussex Asia Centre : University of Sussex|url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sussexasiacentre/people/associates/moska|access-date=2021-08-18|website=www.sussex.ac.uk}}</ref> The third daughter, Onai, was born in 1978.<ref name=":0" />

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