page_title: Toryalai Wesa
section_title: Return to Afghanistan
hierarchical_section_title: Toryalai Wesa / Return to Afghanistan
caption_attribution_description: English: Kandahar Governor Tooryalai Wesa and Ambassador Ryan Crocker walk the grounds of the governor's palace on 23 April 2012 in Kandahar.
context_page_description: Tooryalai Wesa is a politician in Afghanistan. He was Governor of Kandahar Province from December 2008 to 2014.
context_section_description: Wesa was chosen by President Hamid Karzai to serve as Governor of Kandahar. Prior to that he was Chancellor of Kandahar University.
  Dr. Wesa is fluent in English, Persian, German, Arabic, and his native Pashto language. His immediate family includes a wife and three daughters, one of which is a lawyer and the other an economist. His wife, Rangina, is a gynecologist, training midwives.
caption: U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Toryalai Wesa in 2012.
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