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Noor Mohammad Qarqeen
Noor Mohammad Qarqin (born 1953 in a village in Qarqeen District of Jowzjan Province, Afghanistan) is a former minister in the Afghan government and ambassador. He is an ethnic Turkmen and has a Bachelor of Science from Kabul University. Early life In 1978, he began service in the Ministry of Education as a member of the Uzbek and Turkmen Department, and later had a leading position in the gas and oil industry in Hairatan. After the Soviet invasion he moved to Pakistan and took part in the Islamic resistance against the communist regime. In December 2001 he returned to Afghanistan and played a role in the Loya Jirga's that were set up to give Afghanistan a new administration and a new constitution. Government minister Between 2002 and 2004 Qarqeen was Social Affairs Minister of Afghanistan in the Transitional Administration, headed by Hamid Karzai. In the first presidential elections A presidential election is the election of any head of state whose official titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jowzjan Province
Jowzjan, sometimes spelled Jawzjan or Jozjan (Dari: ), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the country bordering neighboring Turkmenistan. The province is divided into 11 districts and contains hundreds of villages. It has a population of about 613,481, which is multi-ethnic and mostly agriculturalists. Sheberghan is the capital of Jozjan province. History The province is named after the early medieval region and principality of Juzjan. Between the early 16th century and mid-18th century, the area was ruled by the Khanate of Bukhara. It was conquered by Ahmad Shah Durrani and became part of the Durrani Empire in or about 1750, which formed to the modern state of Afghanistan. The area was untouched by the British during the three Anglo-Afghan wars that were fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Recent history Following a series of changing allegiances and falling out with Uzbek warlord Abdul Malik Pahlawan in 1997, the Taliban withdrew from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
