Atta Muhammad Nur (also spelled Ata Mohammed Noor; Persian: عطا محمد نور; born 1964) is an Afghan exiled politician and former Mujahid Leader who served as the Governor of Balkh Province in Afghanistan from 2004 to January 25, 2018.[1] An ethnic Tajik,[3] he worked to educate the Mujahideen after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, gaining the nickname "The Teacher".[4] He then became a mujahideen resistance commander for the Jamiat-e Islami against the Soviets.
When the Taliban government took power in late 1996, Noor served as a commander in the United Front (Northern Alliance) under Ahmad Shah Massoud against the Taliban. He led operations in the Balkh area.[5] In 2004, President Hamid Karzai appointed him as the governor of Balkh province.[3] He has been described by The Economist as being "immensely wealthy."[6] He was removed from the position of Provincial Governor by President Ashraf Ghani in January 2018.[7]
During the 2021 Taliban offensive, Nur, along with Abdul Rashid Dostum, fled Mazar-e-Sharif to Uzbekistan in August 2021.[8]
^ abAlim, Mohammad Haroon (6 October 2020). "Government Appoints New Governor For Balkh Province".
^"Afghan Governor Himself Defends Indian Consulate And Wins Our Collective Respect".
^ abKramer, Andrew E. (February 18, 2018). "Second Afghan Governor Defies Kabul Order to Resign, Adding to U.S. Headache". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-18.
^Nelson, Soraya. "Ex-Warlord Helps Afghan Province Make Progress". NPR.org. NPR. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
^Constable, Pamela (2006) "Top Prosecutor Targets Afghanistan's Once-Untouchable Bosses" The Washington Post 23 November 2006, p. A-22
AttaMuhammadNur (also spelled Ata Mohammed Noor; Persian: عطا محمد نور; born 1964) is an Afghan exiled politician and former Mujahid Leader who served...
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resistance also claimed to have the support of Abdul Rashid Dostum and AttaMuhammadNur on 18 August 2021, while it was reported that members of Dostum's...
Latif Pedram, politician and a Member of Parliament in Afghanistan AttaMuhammadNur, politician Ahmad Massoud, politician and the founder of the National...
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Alma Tak Mountains to conduct reconnaissance. Dostum and General AttaMuhammadNur had been fighting the Taliban in the Darya Suf Valley throughout the...
notably ethnic clashes between followers of Abdul Rashid Dostum and AttaMuhammadNur in northern Afghanistan (their rift would continue until c. 2003)...
This resistance movement was declared a few days later, alongside AttaMuhammadNur. It was later revealed that Sayyaf had been based in New Delhi, India...
full-scale civil war. At the same time, notable regional leaders Tajik AttaMuhammadNur and Uzbek Abdul Rashid Dostum (the PDPA-era commander who turned on...
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extremist in politics and power than the previous imposed leaders", and AttaMuhammadNur seeing it as a "sign of hegemony, monopoly and a return to the past"...
by Ismail Khan), 6th Army Corps at Kunduz, 7th Army Corps (under AttaMuhammadNur at Balkh), 8th Army Corps (at Jowzjan, dominated by Dostum's National...
Mashhad Shura, sponsored by Iran, and the fourth is the Rasool Shura, led by Muhammad Rasul and also known as the High Council of the Islamic Emirate. While...
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