List of governors of Nimruz

This is a list of governors of Nimruz. Nimruz is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, in the southwest of the country on the borders of Iran and Pakistan.

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Din Muhammad Delawar1965-66
  • First governor of the newly formed Nimruz Province
Abdul Qadir Qazi1966-68
Mir Aminuddin Ansari1968-1971
Haji Muhammad Asif1971-72
Sakhi Ahmad Farhad1972- ?[1]
Hamidullah Niyazmand1995
  • Appointed as first Taliban governor of Nimruz
  • Member of the local Brahui ethnic group[2]
Abdul Ghani Baradar1995
  • Removed from power in Mujahideen counter-attack on Zaranj[3]
Sher Malang1995 - ?
  • Believed Pakistani, Pashto speaker[4]
Mullah Muhammad Rasul? - 2001
  • Founded a new capital city for Nimruz Province at Khashrowd, called Ghurghuri[5]
Abdul Karim Brahui2001-05
  • Appointed governor after the fall of the Taliban government[6]
Ghulam Dastagir Azad2005-10
Abdul Karim Brahui2010-2012
  • Appointed August 2010
  • Dismissed September 2012[7]
Amir Muhammad Akhundzada201?-
Mohammad Samiullah2015-Appointed Governor May 2015

References
  1. Governors 1965-1972 taken from: Ludwig W. Adamec Historical and political who's who of Afghanistan. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1975. ISBN 3-201-00921-0, ISBN 978-3-201-00921-8
  2. Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-674-02690-X, 9780674026902. Pg 185-187
  3. Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-674-02690-X, 9780674026902. Pg 185-187
  4. Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-674-02690-X, 9780674026902. Pg 185-187
  5. Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-674-02690-X, 9780674026902. Pg 185-187
  6. Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-674-02690-X, 9780674026902. Pg 185-187
  7. Mogelson, Luke (18 October 2012). "The Scariest Little Corner of the World". The New York Times. p. 16. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
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