Mohammad Gulab Mangal (Pashto: محمد ګلاب منګل) (b. 1958), also as Gulab Mangal is the current governor of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and the former governor of Laghman and Paktika provinces. He also served as head of the Committee that drafted Afghanistan's most recent Constitution. Mangal is considered an effective governor by both diplomats and military officials in Afghanistan.
Mangal was born in Laja Mangal, Paktia Province in Afghanistan...
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Mohammad Gulab Mangal (Pashto: محمد ګلاب منګل) (b. 1958), also as Gulab Mangal is the current governor of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and the former governor of Laghman and Paktika provinces. He also served as head of the Committee that drafted Afghanistan's most recent Constitution. Mangal is considered an effective governor by both diplomats and military officials in Afghanistan.
Mangal was born in Laja Mangal, Paktia Province in Afghanistan, and belongs to the Mangal ethnic Pashtun tribe. He has a degree in literature from Kabul University.
A former member of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Mangal served as a colonel in the Afghan army, and worked in the Ministries of Interior and Defence in the late 1970s, and later joined the insurrection fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. After the American led invasion in 2001, he was appointed a Regional Coordinator of the Constitutional Loya Jirga in Paktia.
Mangal served as governor of Paktika Province from March...
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