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Ahmed Wali Karzai

Before the 2009 Afghan presidential election, Wali Karzai and Sher Mohammad Akhundzada, former governor of the Helmand Province and a member of the Upper House of the Afghan parliament, were accused of vote rigging.

Mohammad Nasim Akhundzada

His nephew Sher Mohammad Akhundzada was the governor of Helmand until 2005 and is an important Afghan politician.

Sher Mohammad Akhundzada

He has also identified some fundamental agricultural projects to be implemented in Helmand such as excavation of a canal from Kajaki dam to irrigate northern Helmand, construction of an intake on Musa Qala River to irrigate the arable lands and generate electricity, construction of an intake on Helmand river in Kamal Khan to irrigate the unproductive farms which could basically improve lives of the people of Helmand and Nimroz provinces.

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Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is widely rumored to have made strong links with Taliban for interference in Afghanistan which has first started to operate in Urozgan, a province bordered with Helmand in the North-East.

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The Mafia along with the ISI linked Taliban targeted to win Helmand and Kandahar, their previous base and capital city due to the strategic location these provinces own.

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While in the new districts of Nad Ali and Nawa, where farmers tended to be immigrants from mixed tribal backgrounds and tribal rhetoric had little impact, in the other districts tribal networks remained much more solid, especially in the north.

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