List of governors of Kunduz

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

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Governors of Kunduz Province

GovernorPeriodExtraNote
Sin foto.svg Sahib Jan Sahraye ~1978
August 1978
Sin foto.svg Qari Rahmatullah ~1993
Sin foto.svg Arif Khan - 2000Assassinated in 2000 in Peshawar, Pakistan
Sin foto.svg Abdul Latif Ibrahimi 2002
2004
Omar a few days before death-3-cropped.jpg Mohammad Omar 2004
October 8, 2010
Assassinated on 8 October 2010 when attending Friday prayers in Taloqan, Takhar province
Kunduz governor with German officials in 2011.jpg Muhammad Anwar Jigdalak [1] 2010
2012
Sin foto.svg Ghulam Sakhi Baghlani [2] 2013
2014
Sin foto.svg Mohammad Omar Safi [3] 2014
October 29, 2015
fled to London after Kunduz City fell to Taliban insurgents. [3]
Sin foto.svg Asadullah Omarkhel9 February 2016
?
head of Kunduz high peace council
Sin foto.svg Nisar Ahmad Nusrat [4] 7 November 2021-
3 March 2024

See also

Notes

  1. Afghan Biographies
  2. Afghan Biographies
  3. 1 2 Afghan Biographies
  4. "د نږدې شلو ولایاتو لپاره نوي والیان او امنیې قوماندانان وټاکل شول". 7 November 2021.

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