# Sher Malang

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Mullah **Sher Mohammad Malang** was a Taliban governor of [Nimruz Province](/source/Nimruz_Province), [Afghanistan](/source/Afghanistan) under the [Taliban](/source/Taliban) government. He is a [Popalzai](/source/Popalzai). After the Taliban took control in the south in the mid-1990s, he was appointed governor of Nimruz and then later served with the military.[1]

Malang is remembered by locals for burning a local library, beating people with a stick, and believing the local people to be Shi'a (and thus heretics per Taliban belief) due to their proximity to Iran.[2]

## References

1. Felix Kuehn, Alex Strick van Linschoten (23 August 2012). [*An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan*](https://books.google.com/books?id=PpqKLn7eugEC&q=mullah+malang+afghan+myth+mullah+malang&pg=PA478). Oxford University Press. p. 478. ISBN 9780199977239.

1. Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi. [*The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan*](https://books.google.com/books?id=R4ahq-05YuQC&dq=%22Karim+Brahui%22&pg=PA185). Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-674-02690-X, 9780674026902. Pg 185-187

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