The revelation shocked Monsef, 31, her sisters, and apparently the Canadian government as well. “Today, The Globe and Mail published an article outlining that I was in fact born in Mashhad, Iran and not in Herat, Afghanistan — as I was led to believe for my whole life,” Monsef said in a statement issued Thursday. OTTAWA—The dramatic life story and political narrative of the woman hailed as Canada’s first Afghanistan-born cabinet minister, Maryam Monsef, shifted dramatically when a newspaper revealed to her she was not born in Afghanistan. “In recent days, my mother told me for the first time that my sisters and I were in fact born in Mashhad, Iran, approximately 200 kilometers from the Afghan border. “My sisters and I asked my mother why she never told us we were born in Iran.

Source: The Star September 22, 2016 15:11 UTC