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Gul Agha Sherzai (Pashto: ګل آغا شيرزی) also known as Mohammad Shafiq is a politician in Afghanistan. He is the former governor of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan. He previously served as Governor of Kandahar province in the early 1990s and from 2001 until 2003. As of October 2013 Sherzai resigned from his post as governor and formally announced himself as a candidate for Afghanistan’s 2014 Presidential Election.