A local leader of an anti-Taliban militia, from Sorubi, set up a provisional government in

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on November 16, 2001, after the

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retreated. The two other leaders in the provisional government were Hazrati Ali from Towr Kham and Malawi Yunis Khalis from the provincial capital,

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. The provisional government was part of the Eastern Shura.

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