Mohammad Ayub Khalid

Qari Mohammad Ayub Khalid (Pashto: قاری محمد ایوب خالد) is an Afghan Taliban leader who is currently serving as the provincial governor of Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan Province.

[11] Chinese critics, including Zhu Yongbiao, an international relations scholar from Lanzhou University, have expressed wariness towards the actual economic value of the road and the risks of Uyghur militants traveling between Afghanistan and Xinjiang Province, viewing the project's primary value as symbolic.

"[12] At 7:00 PM AFT on 21 January 2024, a Dassault Falcon 10 business jet medically evacuating a woman[13][14] from Rayong, Thailand to Moscow along with her husband and a flight crew (all Russian nationals) crashed in the mountains of Badakhshan Province after attempting a emergency low-fuel landing in Tajikistan.

From 3 to 13 May 2024, nearly a year into Ayub Khalid's tenure as provincial governor, a series of rare protests and demonstrations against Taliban public administration broke out in the Darayim and Argo districts of Badakhshan.

Protests began on 3 May in response to strong Taliban enforcement of bans on illicit drugs where many impoverished Badakhshani farmers draw sole income on opium-producing poppy crops.