Asadullah Khalid

Asadullah Khalid is the Minister of Tribal and Border Affairs. He was former Governor of Kandahar Province in Afghanistan. He previously served as Governor of Ghazni Province, from 2001 to 2005. He was replaced by Rahmatullah Raufi as the Governor of Kandahar Province in August 2008.

Biography

Asadullah Khalid is a former Kabul University student, he left his political science course and joined the Northern Alliance to fight the Taliban.

He became the governor of Ghazni province after the removal of the Taliban government and until 2005. After a re-shuffle in 2005, by President Hamid Karzai, Khalid was shifted from Ghazni province to become the new governor of Kandahar province. He is an ethnic Pashtun.

On October 19, 2006 Assadullah Khalid told that it appeared to him no Taliban insurgents were in the village at the time of a NATO airstrike, which left giant pieces of mud packed with straw scattered along the narrow lane of the Ashogho village. Khalid, who traveled to Ashogho, about 15 miles west of Kandahar City, said nine people were killed, including women and children, and 11 wounded. Residents said 13 were killed, including four women, and 15 wounded. The governor stuck with his figures when contacted later in the day. He said Hamid Karzai expressed his sympathy after he called the president on his cell phone from the village. Asadullah Khalid was saddened by the deaths of innocent civilians. It seemed clear from the villagers that no Taliban fighters were in their...
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