List of governors of Kandahar

This is a list of the governors of the province of Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Governor			Period	Extra	Note
		Muhammad 'Amin Khan	?-1865	Governor of Kandahar, revolted against Sher Ali Khan in 1865 but the rebellion was crushed and he was killed. [1]
		Sardar Mir Afzal Khan	?-1878	Sardar Mir Afzal Khan (son of Pur Dil Khan and father of Sardar Abdul Wahab Khan - governor of Mazar-i-Sharif in 1914 [2] ) was the governor of Kandahar up until the start of the Second Anglo-Afghan War before leaving for Persia upon the approach of the British. [3]
		Mohammad Hassan Khan	April 1881-July 1881	Appointed by Amir Abdur Rahman Khan after withdrawal of British forces from Afghanistan after the second Anglo-Afghan war.	[4]
		Mohammad Ayub Khan	July 1881-September 1881	Defeated Mohammad Hassan Khan and briefly ruled the province for the first time before being defeated by Amir Abdur Rahman Khan.	[4]
		Nur ul-Haq Ulumi	1989 1992
		Gul Agha Sherzai	1992 1994
		Mohammad Hasan Rahmani	1994 2001		[5]
		Gul Agha Sherzai	December 2001 16 August 2003
		Yousef Pashtun	August 2003 2005
		Asadullah Khalid	2005 August 2008
		Rahmatullah Raufi	August 2008 4 December 2008
		Toryalai Wesa	4 December 2008 2014
		Hamid Masood	2014 2015
		Humayun Azizi	27 April 2015 21 May 2017
		Zalmai Wesa	21 May 2017 18 October 2018
		Hayatullah Hayat	18 October 2018 3 January 2021
		Rohullah Khanzada	3 January 2021 12 August 2021		[6]
		Muhammad Yousuf Wafa	12 August 2021 March 2023		[7]
		Mullah Shirin Akhund	March 2023 Present

See also

• List of current provincial governors in Afghanistan

References

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2. Adamec, Ludwig W. (1975). Historical and political who's who of Afghanistan. Hauptbd: Historical and political Who's who. Graz: Akad. Druck- u. Verlagsanst. pp. 101, 478. ISBN   978-3-201-00921-8.
3. Trousdale, William; Allen, Mitchell; Maurer, Cyndi (2021). Kandahar in the nineteenth century. Leiden: Brill. ISBN   978-90-04-43305-2.
4. Forbes, Archibald (1892). The Afghan Wars, 1839-42 and 1878-80 (2nd ed.). London: Seeley and Co., Limited. pp. 326–327.
5. "Senior Taliban leader Mullah Hassan Rahmani dies". 9 February 2016.
6. "Senior Officials Appointed in Kandahar". TOLOnews. January 3, 2021. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
7. Trofimov, Yaroslav (2021-08-13). "Taliban Seize Kandahar, Prepare to March on Afghan Capital Kabul". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2021-09-21.