Farahnaz Forotan Persian : فرحناز فروتن ‎‎ is an Afghan female journalist born in the capital, Kabul. With the fall of the Mujahidden regime and the rise of the Taliban, her family like millions of other Afghan households, fled the uproar of rockets and instability of Afghanistan to the neighboring country, Iran.

Like endless other Afghan families, Farahnaz's family also paid an extraordinary price for their immigration, including a lack of education in Iran.

Due to their immigrant or refugee status, Farahnaz's and her sisters, along with other Afghans residing in Iran, were denied an education by the Iranian authorities: and obvious violation of the education policy of the United Nations.

Fortunate for her, she was able to continue school from grades one through four, in a private Afghan School called "Sayyed Jamaluddin Afghan".

A school with very limited funding, staff, or facilities.

In 2001, the creation of a temporary government, followed by the country's first democratic election in thirty years, and during former president Hamid Karzai's first term of presidency, Farahnaz's family returned to Afghanistan.

Farahnaz was only grade eight when she began working with a private television in the Afghan capital "Norren TV" from that very young age, she was passionate about working with and for the media.

She continued working for the same station for two consecutive years.

Her journey was then followed by the second most talked-about commercial television station of the country, "Ariana Television Network".

After working in Ariana's production department for a short term, she then moved on to investigative reporting and news.

Within a very minimum amount of experience or exposure to the professional technicality of the job, but with her own hard-work and dedication, she soon became a household name among the country favorite journalist.

She has traveled around the country and abroad to to correspond to Afghanistan related stories, unlike other Afghan female journalist. After the country's forty years of war, she is the first female journalist to have reported from Sangeen district of Helmand, one of the deadliest war-zones in the country and a nest to the Taliban.

Though she first rose to fame with an investigative documentary on the lives of Taliban prisoners.

A documentary that dissected the thought-process, and their reasons behind targeting the Afghan and international forces, along with that of the general public in Afghanistan.

As the prisoners assertively spoke about how each had gotten to their specified cells, from the very first moments into being propagated towards the destruction of innocent lives, their lives in prison was observed in order to secure their human rights, while in prison.

Farahnaz Forotan is working with Ariana Television and she is student at a private university in Kabul, Afghanistan.

she has received numerous national awards.

She was awarded 'Journalist in the country by Afghanistan's Free Media Association in 2015.

She is the youngest female journalist in the country to have been a recipient of the highest national Afghan award from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's Government, at the age of twenty three.