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atta mohammad nur in august 2011 qari nasrat khalid noor islam balkh province , afghanistan 200px governor jamiat-e islami governor of balkh , afghanistan 1965 2004 atta jpg muhammad nur of afghanistan in august 2010-cropped . atta muhammad nur
 atta mohammad nur عطا محمد نور
atta muhammad nur

atta muhammad nur -lrb- also spelled atta mohammed noor , persian : عطا محمد نور -rrb- -lrb- born 1965 -rrb- is a politician in afghanistan , serving as the governor of balkh province in the north of the country .
he was appointed in 2004 by president hamid karzai .
an ethnic tajik , he was a high school teacher before the soviet invasion of afghanistan he was teaching mujahiddin in war against soviet union which earned him the nickname `` the teacher . ''
he then became an anti-soviet mujahideen resistance commander for the jamiat-e islami .
when the taliban took power in late 1996 , atta noor served as a commander in the anti-taliban united front -lrb- northern alliance -rrb- under ahmad shah massoud .
he led operations in the balkh area .
he has been described by `` the economist '' as being `` immensely wealthy . ''
