Roj Nuri Shaways
The engineer and politician Roj Nuri Sadiq Ali, known as (Dr. Roj, Roj Nuri Shaways), joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces in the Year 1962. He was elected as a member of the Central Committee and later as a member of the Political Bureau at the Ninth (Year 1979), Tenth (Year 1989), Eleventh (Year 1993), and Twelfth (Year 1999) Congresses. In the Year 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress, he was re-elected as a member of the Leadership Council and subsequently as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.