Muhammad Arif Shah Jahan ( prs, محمد عارف شاه‌جهان) is a politician and the former governor of

Maidan Wardak province Maidan Wardak ( Pashto: ; Dari: ), also called Wardag or Wardak, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the central region of Afghanistan. It is divided into eight districts and has a population of approximately 500,00 The capit ...

and

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. He was appointed as governor of Wardak province by President

Ashraf Ghani Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan politician, academic, and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014 until August 2021, when his government was overthrown by the Taliban. Born in ...

in place of Zundi Gul Zamani on 17 February 2018. He was previously the representative of the people of

Ghazni province Ghazni (Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in southeastern Afghanistan. The province contains 19 districts, encompassing over a thousand villages and roughly 1.3 million people, making it the 5th most populous province. Th ...

in Afghanistan Parliament.

Early life

Muhammad Arif Shah Jahan was born in 1954 in Jaghatū District of

. He belongs to the ethnic Hazara.

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Living people 1954 births Hazara politicians Governors of Maidan Wardak Province Governors of Farah Province People from Ghazni Province {{Afghanistan-politician-stub

Early life

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