Panjshir is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country. The province is divided into seven districts and contains 512 villages. As of 2018, the population of Panjshir province is about 371,902. Bazarak serves as the provincial capital. A report says more than 700,000 people of Panjshir province living outside of this province, particularly located in Kabul city of Afghanistan.
Mohammad-Ali Ramin is an Iranian politician, political analyst and writer who served as the Vice Minister of Culture and a presidential advisor under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He is known for organising the International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust which took place in Tehran in 2006.
Sayed Jafar Naderi is an ethnic Hazara-Ismaili who controlled Baghlan Province of Afghanistan during the early 90s. He was born in Kayan, Baghlan and is also known as Sayyid-e Kayan The son of Sayed Mansoor Naderi, The previous Vice-President of Afghanistan, Sayed Jafar Naderi went to school in England at age 10, after his father was made a political prisoner. He was sent to the United States at age 13 where he became known as Jeff Naderi.
Taj Mohammad Wardak is an Afghan politician, from the Pashtun ethnic group. He spent some of the period of the Taliban's administration in the United States of America, and became an American citizen.
Kijran, also spelled as Kajran, is a district in Daykundi Province of Afghanistan. It has an area of about 1,886 square kilometres. The population of the district was reported in 2004 at about 26,259 people.
Mullah Obaidullah, the Akhund was the Defence Minister under the Taliban government in Afghanistan and later became an insurgent commander during the Taliban insurgency against the new Afghan government and the US-led NATO forces. He was captured by Pakistani security forces in 2007 and died in 2010 of a heart disease inside a prison in Pakistan.
The 2007 Baghlan sugar factory bombing occurred on November 6, 2007 when a bomb exploded in the centre of Baghlan, Afghanistan, while a delegation of parliamentarians was visiting, killing dozens including several lawmakers.
Ramin or Rameen, transliterated from Rāmin, is a Persian masculine given name of Zoroastrian origin. It is also an occasional surname. It may refer to
Mohammad Akbar Barakzai is a politician in Afghanistan, serving as the Governor of Baghlan from 2009 to 2010.
Munshi Abdul Majid is an Afghan politician. He is an ethnic Pashtun from Baghlan Province. In the 1990s he served as an official in the Afghan Interior Ministry; he is also known as a writer and orator in Persian and Pashto.
Mohammad Omar was the Governor of Kunduz Province, Afghanistan. He was an ethnic Andar Pashtun from Baharak District of Afghanistan.
Mohammad Asif Rahimi is an ethnic Tajik politician born and raised in Paghman District, Kabul in Afghanistan, currently serving as Minister of Agriculture. An ethnic Tajik, he was born in 1959 and raised in Kabul, and obtained a bachelor degree from Kabul University in 1981 before completing post-graduate studies in Management of Development Programs in 1989 at Omaha University in Nebraska, United States. Rahimi moved to Canada in 2001, and returned to Afghanistan in 2005, where he joined the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, spearheading rural development and infrastructure regeneration. He was appointed to his current posting in October 2008 and was confirmed by the National Assembly of Afghanistan. Part of his Ministry's efforts have been focused on reducing opium production in Afghanistan, which is seen as critical to Afghanistan's development.
Sayed Mansur Naderi is a leader of a Hazara-Ismaili Shi'a Muslim community centred in Baghlan Province of Afghanistan. Like other Ismaili communities in Afghanistan and worldwide, the Baghlan Ismailis do submit to the spiritual leader of Ismailis worldwide, the Agha Khan, Naderi acts as a figurehead of the local Ismailies till the socio/religious leadership structure is established in the country. This community although Shia is more smaller than the mainstream Twelver Shia community in Afghanistan.
Bashir Baghlani (1931–2007), born Mohammad Yousuf, was a politician in Afghanistan affiliated with a variety of factions throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, who filled such positions as Governor of Baghlan Province and later Farah Province.
Sayed Ikramuddin Masoomi was born in 1953 in Ashkmash district of Takhar. He is an ethnic Tajik. After graduation from Teacher's Training Faculty in Kunduz he earned a BA inScience from Kabul University. Masoomi has worked as the Director of Enterprises for the Ministry of Finance, as Deputy Minister of Finance as later as Governor of Takhar and Badakhshan Provinces. After his time as Governor he became Minister of Labor and Social Affairs under President Karzai. In 2004 he was appointed as Minister of Work, Social Affairs, Martyred and Disabled. He was replaced in 2006 by Noor Mohammad Qarqeen. Sayed Ekramuddin Masomi then served for more than a year as Governor of Baghlan Province.
The Sheikh Ali are a major tribe of Hazaras. They live in Afghanistan generally in Bamyan, Parwan, Kunduz and Baghlan provinces, inhabiting the road from Kabul to Mazar-e-Sharif.
Rahimi is an Iranian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Eng. Mohammad Asim Asim is a politician in Afghanistan. He is a former governor of Parwan Province from 8 June 2015 till 4 February 2018. Mr Asim was born 1958 in Khinjan District, Baghlan Province. He completed his higher education in BA and master in Islamic relations at Peshawar University. He served as a Deputy Minister of Telecommunication. Mr Asim was an MP who is close to both Abdullah Abdullah and Yunus Qanuni. He participated in the Emergency Loya Jirga in 2002 and was a member of parliament from 2005 to 2010. During the 2014 presidential campaign, he worked with Dr Abdullah Abdullah and is described as a close aid. He was a key member of his unity government negotiations team. Mr Asim is married and has five daughters and six sons.
