Gul Agha Sherzai
Gul Agha Sherzai (), also known as Mohammad Shafiq, is a politician in Afghanistan. He is the former governor of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan. He previously served as Governor of Kandahar province, in the early 1990s and from 2001 until 2003. In October 2013, Sherzai resigned from his post as governor and formally announced himself as a candidate for Afghanistan's 2014 Presidential Election, and served as the minister of border and tribal affairs until the Taliban victory in 2021. Early years Sherzai was born in 1954 in the Barakzai area of Kandahar province. His father was Haji Abdul Latif, proprietor at a small tea shop in Kandahar who rose to become a famous Mujahideen commander. Sherzai took the name ''Gul Agha'' when he joined his father in the Mujahideen, who were fighting in the southern Afghanistan area against the Soviet invasion. His father was later murdered and he added ''Sherzai'' (Pashto for "son of lion") as his last name. He is an ethnic Pashtun f ...
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