Rahmatullah Rahmat
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Rahmatullah Rahmat | |
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| رحمت الله رحمت | |
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| Governor of Paktia Province | |
| In office September 2006 – 17 December 2007[1] | |
| Preceded by | Hakim Taniwal |
| Succeeded by | Juma Khan Hamdard |
| Political Affairs Officer UNAMA | |
| In office June 2008 – June 2012 | |
| Provincial governor Paktia Province, Afghanistan | |
| In office June 2006 – September 2007 | |
| Political Affairs Assistant UNAMA Paktia Province, Afghanistan | |
| In office June 2005 – September 2006 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 May 1950 |
| Party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Habiba rahmat(1979-now) 6 sons and 7 daughters |
| Profession | Political analyst, Politician |
| Awards | MOE Award year 2006 |
Rahmatullah Rahmat (Pashto: رحمت الله رحمت; born 1950) is an Afghan politician. He served as the governor of Paktia province from 2006 to 2007. He was appointed to the position after the assassination of Hakim Taniwal. Rahmat was previously an official of the UNAMA mission in the east of the country.
He was born in Rodat distract Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan to Mohammad Ibrahim. He completed his secondary education in Ihdad High school located in Rodat distract, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.[2]
Rahmatullah Rahmat was born in 1950 in Rodat District in Nangarhar Province. He is an ethnic Pashtun from the Mohmand tribe whose father was a mullah in Nangahar. He attended primary and secondary school in Rodat and later received degrees from the Kabul teacher training academy (1969) and from Tashkent University in Uzbekistan (1987). He also studied in Moscow in 1987-89 where he received a political science certificate from the Moscow Social Science Institute.