1. Former Governors Sar-e-Pul:
Taj Mohammad Kohi, ally of Dostum (20031210, 2004),
Abdul Haq Shafaq (2004, 2006),
Sayed Mohammad Iqbal Munib Monib (20070704, 20080202),
Mohammad Bashir Qant Chah Abi (20080800),
Sayed Anwar Rahmati (20100525 - 20120403 )
Akhtar Mohammad Khairzada acting (20120404)
Abdul Jabbar Haqbin (20120403 -20151007)
Muhammad Zaher Wahdat (20151008, 20160519, 20170418,20180929)
Mohammad Noor Rahmani Dr. Abdullah "appointed" Governor (20200222)
Abdul Qader Ashna (20180930, 20200423, 2020621)
Abdul Haq Shafaq (20210622)
Deputy Governor:
Abdul Rahoul Azizi (2002),
Qotbuddin Shafaq (20080806),
Kamarudin Schikeb Qamaruddin Shakib Qamaruddin Shekib (20070308, 20110926),
Akhtar Muhammad Khairzada (20120409)
Abdul Malik Azimi
Spokesman for the provincial governor:
Munir Ahmad Farhad (20160606)
Zabiullah Amani Wahidullah Amani (20180910, 20190103)
Information and Culture Director:
Abdul Qadus Fahim (20150204)
Department of Irrigation:
Ghulam Rasoul Abidi (2012)
Department of Public Health Director:
Aminullah Altin (2012)
Labour, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled director:
Manizha Sadat Qazizada (20120213)
Women’s affairs director:
Mrs. Nasima Arzo (201300829)
Mrs. Nabila Habibi (20210809)
Education Department Director:
Abdul Ghafoor (20110824)
Head of provincial rehabilitation and urban development Department:
Engineer Jawed Ahmad Jawed (20111026)
Provincial Natural Disaster Management Department Director:
Sayed Faizullah Sadat (20111115), Eng. Aziz Rahman Imaq (20170206)
Department of Agriculture Director:
Moinuddin Aini (2012)
Department of Public Works Director:
Saidhayatullah Sadat (2012)
Director ANDMA:
Said Faizullah Sadat (2012)
Director ARCDS:
Ghulam Yahya Qayam (2012)
Background Sari Pul Province:
The province has six districts - Balkhab, Kohistanat, San(g)charak, Gosfandi, Sayyed and Sozma Qala, plus the district of the provincial capital (UNAMA also gives a district called Sayyedabad) and five representatives in the lower house of parliament. According to the government, Sarepol’s population is estimated at 500,000 (1386, ie 2007/08) while a local NGO, Hambastegi, gives a figure of around 715-720 000. A UNAMA provincial profile of 2007 estimates that the population is composed of 31% Uzbeks, 25% Tajiks, 22% Hazaras and 11% Aimaq. (Other sources give a higher proportion of Uzbeks, around 40%.)
Mohammad Noor Rahmani was appointed as the governor for Sar-i-Pul province by Abdullah on February 22, 2020.
Local officials say Rahmani is currently in the governor’s house while the government-appointed governor, Abdul Qadir Ashna, is continuing his job in the provincial Mines and Petroleum Department.
Atila Noori, spokesperson of Rahmani said that orders of Rahmani were implemented in all organs while Ashna said Rahmani’s orders were not accepted in any organs and he had only occupied the governor’s house.
Some officials who wished to go unnamed said salaries of local officers were approved by Ashna, not by Rahmani.(20200310)
2. Previous Functions:
Provincial Governor Sar-e Pul, Sar i Pul (2004),
Provincial Governor Samangan (2006 - 2007 ),
Provincial Governor Faryab ( 2007-20120813)
Provincial Governor Daikundi Daikondi Daykundi Daikondy (20130505-20150604)
Provincial Governor Faryab (201806, 20180705)
Provincial Governor Takhar Province (20190408, 20200715, 2021)
Provincial Governor Sar-ePul (20210622)
3. Biodata:
 Abdul Haq Shafiq, Son of Mohib Ali, was born in 1961 in Charbagh village of Sar-i-Pul provincial capital. He completed his primary education in Sar-i-Pul and then went to Imam Abu Hanifa High School in Kabul for secondary education. He received his BA degree in Islamic Education from one of the neighboring countries.
During Jihad period in 1981, he was one of the Wahdat-i-Islami Party’s founders and served as military, political and culturalcommittees’ member and spokesperson for the party.
During the Taliban regime, he was member of resistance front in Balkh. After collapse of Taliban, he participated in first Germany Bonn conference and Emergency Loya Jirga in Kabul and worked as secretary in Afghan Constitution Approval Commission.
Since 2004, he served as governor of Samangan for three and a half year and then served as Faryab governor till 2011. Since 2013, he serves as governor of Daikundi.
Shafaq is a Sar-e-Pol native, a Hazara and a former commander of Hezb-i-Wahdat party.
He participated in the UN Talks on Afghanistan ( Bonn 1 conference in Germany) in November 2001 as an Adviser to the Cyprus Group Delegation.
In June 2004 stone throwing students prevented Shafaq from entering is Governors office in Samangan. There was a rumor, that during his tenure als a Governor of Samangan Abdul Haq Shafaq had given all Indian scholarships 2006 to his relatives and personal friends, and no one had ever heard about them. Abdul Haq Shafaq in a phone interview with Media Watch, denied the scholarships story and said that 68 scholarships from India were allocated to Northern provinces through an open competition.(20060419)
12th grade graduates from Northern provinces competed for the fellowships in Balkh University on March 16th, 2006, but no one from Samangan province passed the exam.
Allegedly he arranged, that no one else from Balkh University passed the scholarship exams.
Due to pressure from Dostum, he stepped down as a Governor from Sar-e Pul province in june 2004. As a Sar-e-Pol native and a Hazara, he seems somewhat insulated from some of the ethnic rivalries (especially between the predominant Uzbeks and the Pashtuns). To all appearances, President Karzai is his principal power base. Faryab-based UNAMA interlocutors characterize him as a balancer of interests, as being above the fray, and say that local residents seem to appreciate his role.
President Karzai during a special ceremony on 20120731 at the presidential palace, awarded Abdul Haq Shafaq the Mir Masjedi Khan medal.
He is married and has children. One son is Mujtaba Shafiq.
Shafaq speaks Dari and English. |