This is a list of provincial governors of the Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) from 1996 to 2001. Much of the information is drawn from a United Nations list of senior Taliban leaders.
+ Taliban provincial governors Honorific Name Province Notes Mullah Mohammad Hasan Rahmani Kandahar Province Maulavi Abdul Kabir Nangahar Province Second Deputy, Council of Ministers Head of Eastern Zone Maulavi Abdul Jabbar Omari Baghlan Province Guarded Mohammed Omar in the years after the US invasion. Maulavi Norullah Noori Balkh Province Head of Northern Zone Muhammad Islam Bamiyan Province Mullah Janan Faryab Province Mullah Dost Mohammad Ghazni Province Maulavi Khair Mohammad Khairkhwah Herat Province Maulavi Abdul Bari Helmand Province Maulavi Nazar Mohammad Kunduz Province Maulavi Walijan Jawzjan Province Mullah Manan Nyazi Kabul Province Deputy leader of a Taliban faction led by Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. Died 15 May 2021 in a Kabul hospital from gunshot wounds inflicted by unknown gunmen in Herat Province. Maulavi A. Wahed Shafiq Kabul Province Deputy Governor Maulavi Shafiqullah Mohammadi Khost Province Appointed the Governor of Khost in January 2000. M. Eshaq Laghman Province Maulavi Zia ur Rahman Madani Logar Province Maulavi Hamsudin Maidan Wardak Province Mullah Muhammad Rasul Nimroz Province Maulavi Tawana Paktia Province Mullah M. Shafiq Samangan Province Maulavi Aminullah Amin Sar-e Pol Province Maulavi Abdulhai Salek Urozgan Province Maulavi Ahmad Jan Zabol Province The News International reported that "According to well-informed diplomatic circles in Islamabad..." he had been a member of the Quetta Shura, prior to his capture in February 2010.
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