Zalmai Wesa


Zalmay Wesa
is an Afghan politician. Previously governor of eastern Paktia Province, he was appointed governor of Kandahar Province in May 2017 when the former governor, Humayun Azizi was injured in an explosion.
Zalmai Wesa was born in 1947 in Arghandab, Kandahar, and is the elder brother of Toryalai Wesa, a former governor of Kandahar Province. He is a member of the Afghan communist Khalq Party and received his military education in Moscow in the late 1980s. In 2013 he held the rank of Major General with the 209th Corps.