Hakim Taniwal was the Governor

Governor

A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...

 of Paktia province

Paktia Province

Paktia , is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, in the east of the country. Its capital is Gardez. The population is predominantly Pashtun.- History:...

 in Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 until he was killed by a suicide bomber on 10 September 2006, at the age of 63. Prior to his governorship of Paktia, Taniwal had governed the difficult province of Khost

Khost

Khost or Khowst is a city in eastern Afghanistan. It is the capital of Khost province, which is a mountainous region near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan...

, near the border with Pakistan, where al-Qaeda had established training camps during the time of the Taliban and later took refuge in the Tora Bora mountains.

Taniwal was an Afghan exile teaching Sociology

Sociology

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 in Australia before returning to Afghanistan to take the governorship. Lacking the military background, and the associated questionable human rights record, of so many of the country's past and present politicians, Taniwal was considered an effective and honest administrator before his death.
and also Hakim Taniwal brought Khost Shikh Zayed univefsity to khost city, and he signed the contract of Gardez and khost road for these rigions peoples by his struggles. he was one countryest and love to his country men.
editd by Awaljan Taniwal Gardez

Actually, he was well known as corrupt and ineffective. His governorship was marred by rampant police and highway patrol corruption that was so bad that the highway patrol had to be disbanded. Furthermore, while signing contracts worth millions of dollars for projects like the Khowst-Gardez road, none of the projects were started under his leadership after all the money "mysteriously" and repeatedly disappeared. He cared little for provincial politics and took the position of governor with no intentions other than abusing his power to steal as much American money as he could while accomplishing nothing for the betterment of his people.

See also

• List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel
• List of Afghanistan Governors
• Assadullah Wafa
  Assadullah Wafa
  Assadullah Wafa is the former governor of the Afghan province of Helmand, and formerly governor of Kunar Province of Afghanistan and a previous governor of the Paktia Province where he was succeeded by Hakim Taniwal. His first name is sometimes spelled "Asadullah"...
  
  
• Tani, Afghanistan
• Amb (princely state)
  Amb (princely state)
  Amb was a princely state of the former British Indian Empire. In 1947, by the Indian Independence Act 1947, the British abandoned their supremacy, and following the Partition of India Amb's Nawab decided to give up his state's independence by acceding to the new country of Pakistan...
  
  

Further reading

• abc.net.au article Assassination could destabilise east Afghanistan published 11 September 2006 "Governor Taniwal is the highest-ranking Afghan official to be killed since the Taliban insurgency began."