Delbar Jan Arman, also Dilbar Jan Arman Shinwari ( ps, دلبر جان ارمان شینواری) is a politician from Jaji Maidan district of

Khost Khōst ( ps, خوست) is the capital of Khost Province in Afghanistan. It is the largest city in the southeastern part of the country, and also the largest in the region of Loya Paktia. To the south and east of Khost lie Waziristan and Kurram in ...

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.Naval Postgraduate School
He is the ex-governor of

Badghis Province Bādghīs (Dari: ) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northwest of the country, on the border with Turkmenistan. It is considered to be one of the country's most underdeveloped provinces, with the highest poverty r ...

. Delbar Jan Arman has a military and academic background. In the 1970s, he studied for six years at the American Technical College,

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

. He was also trained in the

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. From 2005 till 2009 he was the governor of

Zabul Province Zabul (Pashto/Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the south of the country. It has a population of 249,000. Zabul became an independent province from neighbouring Kandahar in 1963. Historically, it was part of the Zabu ...

. He was an anti-Soviet insurgent who fled to Pakistan during the

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's rule of Afghanistan. He was appointed governor of Zabul on 3 March 2005 by President

Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repub ...

. Delbar Jan Arman is known for his intimate involvement with the U.S.

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based in Qalat and their combined efforts to quickly deploy development projects across the province. In May 2009 he switched positions with

Mohammad Ashraf Naseri Mohammad Ashraf Naseri ( ps, محمد اشرف ناصري) replaced longtime Zabul governor Delbar Jan Arman Shinwari in late March, 2009. An ethnic Pashtun from Paktia Province, Naseri separated from the Ittihad-e Islami under Abdul Rasul Sayyaf ...

. Delbar Jan Arman became governor of

, Mohammad Ashraf Naseri took over the Government of

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Governors of Badghis Province Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Pashtun people Governors of Zabul Province Afghan expatriates in Pakistan Afghan military personnel Mujahideen members of the Soviet–Afghan War People from Khost Province {{Afghanistan-politician-stub