List of current Afghan governors

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This is a table chart of the current governors of Afghanistan. Provincial governors are all appointed by the supreme leader of Afghanistan. [1] Provincial governors are often interchanged between provinces and it is not uncommon for the governor of a province to have prior served as provincial governor of multiple provinces.

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The current supreme leader of Afghanistan and head of the internationally-unrecognized Taliban government is Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada.

Governors

Province GovernorPast governors
Badakhshan Mohammad Ayub Khalid List of Predecessors
Badghis Abdul Sattar Sabir List of Predecessors
Baghlan Abdul Rahman Haqqani List of Predecessors
Balkh Muhammad Yousuf Wafa List of Predecessors
Bamyan Abdullah Sarhadi List of Predecessors
Daykundi Aminullah Obaid List of Predecessors
Farah Ghawsuddin Rahbar List of Predecessors
Faryab Mohammad Shoaib Risalat List of Predecessors
Ghazni Muhammad Amin Jan Omari List of Predecessors
Ghor Ahmad Shah Din Dost List of Predecessors
Helmand Abdul Rahman Kunduzi List of Predecessors
Herat Noor Mohammad Islamjar List of Predecessors
Jowzjan Gul Haidar Shafaq List of Predecessors
Kabul Mohammad Aman Obaid List of Predecessors
Kandahar Mohammad Shirin Akhund List of Predecessors
Kapisa Qari Esanullah Baryal List of Predecessors
Khost Bismillah Abdullah List of Predecessors
Kunar Qudratullah Abu Hamza List of Predecessors
Kunduz Asadullah Omarkhail List of Predecessors
Laghman Shir Ahmad Haqqani List of Predecessors
Logar Zia ur-Rahman Madani List of Predecessors
Nangarhar Salim Kunduzi List of Predecessors
Nimroz Muhammad Qasim Khalid List of Predecessors
Nuristan Zain ul-Abideen List of Predecessors
Paktia Mullah Mohammad Khan Dawat List of Predecessors
Paktika Abdul Khaliq Abid List of Predecessors
Panjshir Mohammad Agha Hakim List of Predecessors
Parwan Abdul Ali Qadratullah List of Predecessors
Samangan Abdullah Hotak List of Predecessors
Sar-e Pul Mohammad Yaqoub Abdur Rahman Aka List of Predecessors
Takhar Obaidullah Aminzada List of Predecessors
Uruzgan Enayatullah Shojah List of Predecessors
Wardak Qari Bakhtiar Muaz List of Predecessors
Zabul Mawlawi Hizbullah List of Predecessors

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References

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