Mohammad Golab Mangal

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name = Mohammad Golab Mangal


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Mohammad Golab Mangal is an Afghan politician, who has held a number of governorships over provinces since the 2001 invasion.

He served as governor of Paktia from March 2004 until March 2006, and then as governor of Laghman Province.cite web
url=http://www.nps.edu/programs/ccs/Docs/Executive%20Summaries/Laghman_Provincial_Overview_CCS.pdf
title=Program for Culture and Conflict Studies: Laghman Province
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On March 22 2008, he was made governor of Helmand Province, while former Interior Ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal replaced him in Laghman.cite web
url=http://www.nps.edu/programs/ccs/Laghman.html
title=Laghman Province
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accessdate=2008-06-05
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nps.edu%2Fprograms%2Fccs%2FLaghman.html&date=2008-06-05 mirror] ]

Life

Mangal is an ethnic Pashtun Mangal, and has a degree in literature from Kabul University.

In the 1970s, he worked initially for the Soviet Interior Ministry in Afghanistan, and then joined the growing insurrection meant to quell the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

He served as head of the Committee that drafted Afghanistan's most recent Constitution.

In May 2008, while flying into Musa Qala with a British escort to dedicate a new mosque, his CH-47 helicoptor was hit by rocket fire. [cite news
url=http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/18-May-2008/Taliban-hit-NATO-helicopter-carrying-Afghan-governor-in-Afghanistan
title=Taliban hit NATO helicopter carrying Afghan governor in Afghanistan
publisher=The Nation (Pakistan)
date=May 18 2008
accessdate=2008-06-05
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nation.com.pk%2Fpakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online%2FInternational%2F18-May-2008%2FTaliban-hit-NATO-helicopter-carrying-Afghan-governor-in-Afghanistan&date=2008-06-05 mirror] ] [

cite news
url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080517/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestbritainchopper
title=Afghan governor says his chopper hit by rocket fire
publisher=Yahoo News
date=May 17 2008
accessdate=2008-06-05
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fs%2Fafp%2F20080517%2Fwl_sthasia_afp%2Fafghanistanunrestbritainchopper&date=2008-06-05 mirror] ]

References

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7310472.stm Profile of Mangal]