Sayed Hussein Anwari
Politician
Sayed Hussein Anwari (Dari: سید حسین انوری) (1956 – 5 July 2016) was an Afghan politician. He was a Shia and came from Mohammed Asef Mohseni's Harakat-e Islami (Islamic Movement party).
Early life
Anwari, an ethnic Sadat from banu Hashim, was born in Shekh Ali District of Parwan Province and was educated as a teacher in Kabul.
Career
He was Minister of Social Affairs and Labor from 1992 to 1995. He fought with the Northern Alliance from 1995 to 2001 against the Taliban and became chief military commander of Harrakat-e-Islami in Afghanistan during that time.
Minister of Agriculture
After Kabul was taken by the Northern Alliance in 2001, he was appointed as the Agriculture minister in Afghanistan's transitional government.
During his tenure his personal interest was in the cultivation of roses. As Minister he worked to develop agribusiness in the forestry, stone fruit and pomegranate sector. The established business of grapes and certain vegetables were afforded support from assorted NGOs. He encouraged and supported the establishment by an American company, Permanente Corporation of California, of the creation of three major tree farms and nurseries in the Kabul area that grew millions of root stock trees for stone fruit, fruiting pomegranate orchard trees and millions of Pinus Alderica (Afghan Pine) seedlings for eventual transplanting into the mountains denuded by prior years of war and over cutting.
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