He was born in 1908 in Mahabad, Iran. He lost his father and uncle during World War I and the Russian invasion of Kurdistan and Iran.
In 1927 and 1928, she met the Kurdish leader Qazi Mohammed and married him. Mina Khanum was one of the Qazi Muhamad's colleagues in all fields of life. Although she could not study because there was no school in her area as a child, she was a capable, intellectual and political woman. Those who knew Mina Khanum say that if someone didn't know her well, they would think she had graduated from university. That is why they say an Iranian official once asked her which university she graduated from, and Mina Khanum replied by saying Qazi Mohammad University.
Mina Khanum was able to play an active role in assisting her husband and participating in political and administrative life.
During the establishment of the Kurdistan Republic, Mina Khanum became the president of Yaya Organization and thus Mina Khanum became the first president of the Kurdistan Women's Union. She was able to play a significant role in serving the women of her country and her organization was able to serve women in the cultural and social fields and insist on receiving women's rights and consolidating their rights in the Kurdistan Republic.
She was 38 years old when her husband was executed and after that she was solely responsible of taking care of their children. Mina Khanum had nine children with Peshawa Qazi Muhammad. One of her children died in the cradle and she was left with eight children whom she was able to send to school and some of them to graduate from university.
Mina Khanum has suffered many hardships in her life. She has been imprisoned and tortured by the occupying regimes of Iran. In 1984, she was imprisoned by the Iranian regime for 11 months and subjected to torture and violence. While in prison, Mina Khanum became ill due to the torture and pain. In order to send her to an ordinary hospital, the regime demanded that one of her daughters be imprisoned in her place. So Ms. Fawzia went to prison and Mina Khanum was sent to a hospital in Tehran. She was rescued from a hospital in Tehran with the help of Kurds living in the city and went into hiding in Mashhad.
In 1991, she moved to Germany but later returned to Mahabad. In 1995 and 1996 she went abroad for treatment of his illness and after losing hope in her recovery, she returned to Mahabad and finally on 17-02-1996 she passed away.[1]