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Voice of America
March 2, 2018
... earlier this week on the main highway between southern Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces. The insurgent group, in a statement issued Friday, said the fate of the remaining hostages will be determined by the relevant Taliban department. It claimed an Uruzgan government spokesman is among them.
Sputnik International
December 19, 2016
While the Afghan government claims to have zero tolerance for child abusers in their security forces, Uruzgan government spokesman Dost Mohammad Nayab confirmed that nearly every provincial checkpoint had a bacha. He fears that if they remove child sex slaves, officers will abandon their posts.
The Atlantic (blog)
August 31, 2010
He described “an illiterate former highway patrol commander [who] has grown stronger than the government of Oruzgan Province, not only supplanting its role in providing security but usurping its other functions, his rivals say, like appointing public employees and doling out government largess. His fightersÃÂ ...
New York Times
June 5, 2010
In little more than two years, Mr. Matiullah, an illiterate former highway patrol commander, has grown stronger than the government of Oruzgan Province, not only supplanting its role in providing security but usurping its other functions, his rivals say, like appointing public employees and doling outÃÂ ...
