Said Fazal Akbar was the first Governor of Kunar province in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. He was an ex-

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who was running a clothing store in

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, California when he was appointed Governor by President Hamid Karzai. His governorship is chronicled in the book by his son,

Hyder Akbar Said Hyder Akbar (born 1984 in Peshawar, Pakistan) is an American writer and an entrepreneur in Afghanistan. Akbar, a citizen of both Afghanistan and the United States, attended Diablo Valley College and transferred to Yale University. Akbar is f ...

, "Come Back to Afghanistan, A California Teenager's Story"

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