President Emomali Rahmon’s daughter Ozoda Rahmon, who heads President’s Executive Office, has congratulated her father on his 65th birthday. The congratulation video is posted by the Tajik president’s press center on its Facebook page.
In her message of congratulation, Ozoda Rahmon calls her father smart and competent tutor-guide.
“The happy life of you and our mother and your activity as head of state are the lesson of life and a matter of pride for us,” the message says.
Ozoda Rahmon notes that the father’s jubilee has become a good pretext for their family to gather together.
Ozoda Rahmon was appointed the chief of President’s Executive Office on January 20, 2016, following about 11 years in diplomatic service.
Ozoda Rahmon graduated from Tajik National University with a specialist degree in International Law in 2000. Between 2004 and 2006, she took economics and politics courses at the Georgetown University and English courses at the University of Maryland. In 2012, she was awarded the Candidate of Sciences degree after defending a thesis on legislation dealing with women's rights in Tajikistan.
Ozoda Rahmon is married to Jamoliddin Nouraliyev, first deputy head of the National Bank of Tajikistan, who had previously served as the deputy finance minister from 2007 to 2015. The couple has five children.
President Rahmon’s eldest son Rustam Emomali was appointed Mayor of Dushanbe in January this year. Prior to this, the 29-year-old Rustam Emomali headed the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption. He is married with three children.
President's Rahmon’s third daughter, Rukhshona Rahmonova, was appointed the deputy head of the department for international relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in November 2016. She had previously worked at Tajikistan's Embassy in London. Her husband Shamsullo Sohibov is the president of Tajikistan’s National Winter Sports Association.
President Rahmon's sixth daughter, Zarina Rahmon, was appointed a deputy head of the country’s largest commercial bank, Orienbonk. The 23-year-old Zarina Rahmon was appointed to the post in January 2017, but no public announcement has been made about the appointment. The chief of Orienbonk is her uncle (her mother’s brother) Hasan Asadullozoda. In 2013, Zarina Rahmon got married to the son of Beg Zuhurov, the head of the Communications Service under the Government of Tajikistan.
Emomali Rahmon has nine children – seven daughters and two sons.
