List of governors of Nimruz

This is a list of governors of Nimruz. Nimruz is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, in the southwest of the country on the borders of Iran and Pakistan.

name	date	notes
Din Muhammad Delawar	1965-66	First governor of the newly formed Nimruz Province
Abdul Qadir Qazi	1966-68
Mir Aminuddin Ansari	1968-1971
Haji Muhammad Asif	1971-72
Sakhi Ahmad Farhad	1972- ?[1]
Hamidullah Niyazmand	1995	Appointed as first Taliban governor of Nimruz Member of the local Brahui ethnic group[2]
Abdul Ghani Baradar	1995	Removed from power in Mujahideen counter-attack on Zaranj[3]
Sher Malang	1995 - ?	Believed Pakistani, Pashto speaker[4]
Mullah Muhammad Rasul	? - 2001	Founded a new capital city for Nimruz Province at Ghurghuri[5]
Abdul Karim Brahui	2001-05	Appointed governor after the fall of the Taliban government[6]
Ghulam Dastagir Azad	2005-10
Abdul Karim Brahui	2010-201?	Appointed August 2010.
Amir Muhammad Akhundzada	201?-
Mohammad Samiullah	2015-	Appointed Governor May 2015

References

1. Governors 1965-1972 taken from: Ludwig W. Adamec Historical and political who's who of Afghanistan. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1975. ISBN 3-201-00921-0, ISBN 978-3-201-00921-8
2. Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-674-02690-X, 9780674026902. Pg 185-187
3. Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-674-02690-X, 9780674026902. Pg 185-187
4. Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-674-02690-X, 9780674026902. Pg 185-187
5. Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-674-02690-X, 9780674026902. Pg 185-187
6. Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi. The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan. Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-674-02690-X, 9780674026902. Pg 185-187