Munshi Abdul Majid

Munshi Abdul Majid (Pashto: منشي عبدالمجید; born 1952) is an Afghan politician.

[1] In the 1990s he served as an official in the Afghan Interior Ministry; he is also known as a writer and orator in Persian and Pashto.

In 2005 he was appointed governor of Badakhshan Province, where in 2007 he led a successful opium eradication campaign.

In April 2009, protests erupted over Governor Majid's alleged abuse of power, and he was removed from his post.

[2] Governor Majid is a high-ranking member of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, and he is allegedly involved in strengthening the party and rebuilding its communications network across the country.