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Abdul Basir Salangi
Abdul Basir Salangi or ''Abdul Baseer Salangi'', born on 8 August 1962 in Parwan, is the ethnic Tajik who has been a former Governor of Farah province in Afghanistan, and a commander in the Afghan Civil War, aligned with Jamiat-e Islami and Ahmad Shah Massoud. Additionally, he was chief of Kabul after the 2001 fall of the Taliban regime, until he was replaced by General Baba Jan after being indicted in the Shinpur scandal. Karzai administration Following the fall of the Taliban government in 2001, Salangi was appointed as the chief of police for Kabul. However the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission accused him of bulldozing 300 poor houses in the Shinpur district of Kabul, to clear land for building houses for warlords. Following this Salangi was removed from his post and assigned as Police Chief of the volatile Wardak Province where he stayed until 2005. In 2008 Salangi was posted as governor of Parwan. In 2010, as governor, he directed rescue efforts in the region ...
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List Of Governors Of Farah
This is a list of the governors of the province of Farah, Afghanistan. Governors of Farah Province See also * List of current governors of Afghanistan This is a table chart of the current governors of Afghanistan. Provincial governors are all appointed by the supreme leader of Afghanistan. Provincial governors are often interchanged between provinces and it is not uncommon for the governor of ... Notes {{Farah Province Farah * ...
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General Baba Jan
Baba Jan Zahid, (also known as "General Babajan") is a former senior security official of Afghanistan. He was a general of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, but during the collapse of Najib's government, he entered Kabul with Ahmad Shah Masoud's forces and served in various departments of the Islamic State of Afghanistan under the leadership of Ustad Burhanuddin Rabbani. In the civil wars of Afghanistan, he dealt heavy blows to the Hezb-i-Islami led by Golbedin Hekmatyar. After the emergence of the Taliban terrorist group, he joined the Northern Alliance and fought international terrorism, including Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. At this time, he had three thousand armed forces under his command. After the September 11 attacks which were committed by al-Qaeda against the United States, he became one of the main allies of NATO and American forces, and played a pivotal role in the defeat of Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists. He gathered his forces and assisted the American-led ...
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Governors Of Parwan Province
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative. Depending on the type of political region or polity, a ''governor'' may be either appointed or elected, and the governor's powers can vary significantly, depending on the public laws in place locally. The adjective pertaining to a governor is gubernatorial, from the Latin root ''gubernare''. In a federated state, the governor may serve as head of state and head of government for their regional polity, while still operating under the laws of the federation, which has its own head of state for the entire federation. Ancient empires Pre-Roman empires Though the legal and administrative framework of provinces, each administered by a governor, was created by the Romans, the term ''governor'' has been a convenient term for historians to describe similar systems in antiquity. Indeed, many regions of the pre-Roman an ...
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