Mohammad Asif Rahimi
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Rahimi in April 2011
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| Minister of Agriculture of Afghanistan | |
| Assumed office October 11, 2008 |
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| President | Hamid Karzai |
| Preceded by | Obaidullah Rameen |
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| Born | 1959 Kabul Province, Afghanistan |
| Religion | Islam |
Mohammad Asif Rahimi (born: 1959) is a politician in Afghanistan, currently serving as Minister of Agriculture.[1] An ethnic Tajik,[2][3][4] he was born in 1959 and raised in Kabul,[5] and obtained a degree from Kabul University before completing post-graduate studies at Omaha University in Nebraska.[5] Rahimi moved to Canada in 2001, and returned to Afghanistan in 2005, where he joined the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, spearheading rural development and infrastructure regeneration. He was appointed to his current posting in October 2008 and was confirmed by the National Assembly of Afghanistan.[6][7] Part of his Ministry's efforts have been focused on reducing opium production in Afghanistan, which is seen as critical to Afghanistan's development.[8]
Asia Times reported that on November 17, 2009, two employees of the Ministry of Agriculture had the home they shared with their extended family raided by American special forces.[9] Asia Times reported that the surviving cousin Majibullah Qarar had reported the capture and disappearance of the other ministry employee Habib-ur-Rahman, and the shooting of two other cousins, Hamidullah and Azim. A denunciation of Habib-ur-Rahman had triggered the raid. He was a computer expert who had traveled to Kuwait to study Computer Science, and his denunciators claimed he had been influenced by al Qaeda, while there. Asia Times reported that the Minister of Agriculture had personally appealed to the Americans for the release of his employee.
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| Preceded by | Minister of Agriculture of Afghanistan October 11, 2008- |
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