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{{Short description|Afghan politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Gul Agha Sherzai<br />گل آغا شیرزی
| image = Gul Agha.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Sherzai speaking at the Rule of Law Conference for Eastern Afghanistan in October 2009
| order =
| office = Governor of [[Nangarhar Province]], [[Afghanistan]]
| term_start = 12 July 2005
| term_end = October 2013
| lieutenant =
| predecessor =
| successor
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1954}}
| birth_place = [[
| death_date =
| death_place =
| profession = Politician, former [[Afghan mujahideen|Mujahideen]] leader
| party = Independent
| order2 = Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs of Afghanistan
| term_start2 = 25 July 2017
| term_end2 =
| predecessor2 =
| successor2 = [[Norullah Noori]] ([[Taliban]] government)
}}
'''Gul Agha Sherzai''' ({{Lang-ps|'''ګل آغا شيرزی'''}}; born 1954), also known as '''Mohammad Shafiq''',<ref name="Biographies of 10 presidential runners"/> is a [[Politics of Afghanistan|politician]] and former warlord in [[Afghanistan]]. He is
{{cite news
| url = http://harpers.org/archive/2009/12/0082754?redirect=429066851
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| author = Matthieu Aikins
| access-date = 2010-12-27
}}</ref> He previously served as Governor of [[Kandahar Province|Kandahar province]], in the early 1990s and from 2001 until 2003. In October 2013, Sherzai resigned from his post as governor and formally announced himself as a candidate for [[2014 Afghan presidential election|Afghanistan's 2014 Presidential Election]], and served as the minister of border and tribal affairs until the Taliban
==Early years==
Sherzai was born in 1954
His father was later murdered and he added ''Sherzai'' ([[Pashto language|Pashto]] for "son of lion") as his last name. He is an ethnic [[Pashtun people|Pashtun]] from the [[Barakzai]] tribe. His father was locally known as Haji Latif Sagwan, ("Sagwan" is a term used for a "dog fighter") which is a derogatory term used for gamblers, who was a well
After the collapse of the [[People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan|PDPA]] government in 1992, Sherzai served as [[List of governors of Kandahar|Governor of Kandahar]].<ref name="Harpers2009-12" /> He was known outside of Afghanistan as one of the major [[warlord]]s until around September 1994 when the [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)|Taliban]] began their conquest in Kandahar. Sherzai resigned from his post as governor and remained hidden until late 2001 in Pakistan.
==The Karzai administration==
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[[File:Afghan governors in 2009.jpg|thumb|Sherzai speaking in 2009 with the governors of [[Nuristan Province|Nuristan]], [[Laghman Province|Laghman]] and [[Kunar Province|Kunar province]].]]
In July 2006, Sherzai narrowly escaped an assassination attempt at a funeral outside [[Jalalabad]]. The attempt killed five police officers and wounded several more people, including some children. He opened the newly built highway connecting Jalalabad city with [[Torkham border crossing|Torkham]], which is one of the most popular border towns between Afghanistan and [[Pakistan]]. Afghan President Karzai and [[Prime Minister of Pakistan|Pakistan's Prime Minister]] [[Shaukat Aziz]] were also present during the inauguration.
In 2008 he met [[Barack Obama]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rashid |first1=Ahmed |title=Pakistan in the Brink |date=2012 |publisher=Allen Lane |isbn=9781846145858 |page=72}}</ref>
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Sherzai's brother is Abdul Raziq Sherzai, a commander who captured Kandahar airfield in 2001-02 and was subsequently made the Kandahar wing commander of the [[Afghan Air Force]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=1714&task=view&start=2097&Itemid=2|title=Database|website=www.afghan-bios.info}}</ref>
On October 2, 2013, Sherzai resigned from his post as Governor of Nangarhar Province and formally announced himself as a candidate for [[2014 Afghan presidential election|Afghanistan's 2014 Presidential Election]].<ref name="Biographies of 10 presidential runners">{{cite news |url=http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2013/10/26/biographies-10-presidential-runners |title=Biographies of 10 presidential runners |publisher=Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) |date=26 October 2013 |access-date=26 October 2013 |archive-date=30 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030040922/http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2013/10/26/biographies-10-presidential-runners |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Since 2021, Sherzai pledged allegiance to the Taliban government and he had also congratulated their victory in the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|American War in Afghanistan]] after they [[Fall of Kabul (2021)|took over Kabul]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=Najibullah Lalzoy |title=Taliban to hold grand gathering on new government in Kabul |url=https://www.khaama.com/taliban-to-hold-grand-gathering-on-new-government-in-kabul-567456/ |website=Khaama Press |access-date=16 May 2024 |date=22 August 2021}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline}}
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/war_on_terror/after_the_taleban/g_a_sherzai.stm BBC News - Afghanistan's Powerbrokers (Gul Agha Sherzai)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080306071405/http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=gul_agha_sherzai Profile: Gul Agha Sherzai]
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before=[[Haji Din Mohammad]] |
title=[[List of governors of Nangarhar|Governor]] of [[Nangarhar Province]], Afghanistan |
years=2004–
after=
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