Muhammad Arif Shah Jahan

Muhammad Arif Shah Jahan محمدعارف شاه‌جهان
Governor of Maidan Wardak
In office 28 November 2017 – 17 February 2018
Preceded by	Zundi Gul Zamani
Succeeded by	Abdul Yamen Mozafaruddin
Member of the Parliament for Ghazni province
In office 2010–2017
Personal details
Born	1954 (age 70–71) Kakrak, Jaghatu district, Ghazni province
Nationality	Afghanistan
Occupation	Politician
Ethnicity	Hazaras

Muhammad Arif Shah Jahan (Persian: محمدعارف شاه‌جهان) is an ethnic Hazara politician, who was the former governors of Maidan Wardak and Farah provinces in Afghanistan and the former representative of the people of Ghazni province in the Parliament of Afghanistan.[1][2][3][4]

Early life

Muhammad Arif Shah Jahan son of Ghulam Rasool, an ethnic Hazara, born in 1954 in Kakrak, Jaghatu district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan.[5] Shah Jahan completed his schooling in 1972 at Habibia High School in Kabul. In 1973, he enrolled in Nangarhar University of Jalalabad and in 1980, he received his bachelor's degree in medical sciences. After that, he worked for some time in Ghazni in the medical department and then joined the Mujahideen. He immigrated to the United States in 1997 and returned to his homeland in 2007.[6]

See also

• List of Hazara people

Notes

1. "Mohammad Arif Shah Jahan Appointed New Farah Governor". www.bakhtarnews.com.af. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
2. "Mohammad Arif Shah Jahan appointed new governor of Farah". www.pajhwok.com. 24 March 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
3. www.wolesi.website http://www.wolesi.website/pvd/showdoc.aspx?Id=3307. Retrieved 17 February 2018. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
4. Afghanistan, 1TV. "والیان پنج ولایت افغانستان تغییر کردند". www.1tvnewsaf (in Persian). Retrieved 11 March 2018.
5. خوات, همایون. حماسهٔ جهاد و مقاومت مردم هزاره. کابل: مطبعه کوثر. p. 54.
6. "زندگينامه اعضای ولسی جرگه از ولایت غزنی". elections.pajhwok.com (in Persian). Retrieved 12 April 2024.