MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): The
During the presidential election campaign, Governor Atta Muhammad Noor publicly lent his weight to Dr. Abdullah Abdullah -- Karzai's principal challenger -- and had the cheek to fire broadsides at the president.
On one occasion, Noor went to the extent of saying that he would not recognise Karzai's new administration if he won the vote.
A resident of
Khalid believed Noor might have gone to the neighbouring because of his defiant statement that he would not work under a new government headed by Karzai.
But Deputy Governor Muhammad Zaher Wahdat said Noor was on a visit to
On the other hand, a gubernatorial spokesman denied Noor's departure from the province. Munir Farhad insisted the governor was in
A source in the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG), who requested anonymity, confided to Pajhwok that Noor had shifted his family to
Approached for comments, the IDLG deputy head said they had received no formal information from the governor. Burna Karimi added Noor had spoken of travelling to
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