Lt General Rahmatullah Raufi (born 1946 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan) [1] is a former governor of Kandahar from August 2008 until he was sacked on December 4, 2008. [2] Before that he was a senior military commander of the Afghan National Army presently commanding the 205th Corps, which is responsible for Afghanistan's restive southern provinces. [1] He was the main Afghan commander of government forces in Operation Mountain Thrust.
He was replaced by Afghan-Canadian academic Tooryalai Wesa. [3]
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Governor of
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Afghanistan August 2008– December 2008 |
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Lt General Rahmatullah Raufi (born 1946 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan) [1] is a former governor of Kandahar from August 2008 until he was sacked on December 4, 2008. [2] Before that he was a senior military commander of the Afghan National Army presently commanding the 205th Corps, which is responsible for Afghanistan's restive southern provinces. [1] He was the main Afghan commander of government forces in Operation Mountain Thrust.
He was replaced by Afghan-Canadian academic Tooryalai Wesa. [3]
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Governor of
Kandahar Province,
Afghanistan August 2008– December 2008 |
Succeeded by |
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This Afghanistan biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |