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Daud Shah Saba | |
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 Daud Shah Saba in October 2011 | |
| Governor of Herat Province, Afghanistan | |
| In office 3 September 2010 –3 July 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani |
| Succeeded by | Fazlullah Wahidi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1964 Herat,Afghanistan |
Daud Shah Saba (born 1964) is a politician in Afghanistan,who served as Governor of Herat Province from August 2010 to July 2013 when his predecessor Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani had resigned from the post.
Daud Shah Saba was born in 1964 in Herat,Afghanistan. He belongs to the Popalzai Pashtun tribe. After finishing primary school,he attended the Kabul Polytechnic Institute and obtained a MS in Economic Geology in 1986. He taught in the same institute for six years. In 1996,he travelled to India where he obtained a Ph.D. in Earth Science from the University of Mumbai. He is able speak Dari (Persian),Pashto,English and Hindi.
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