Mohammad Dawood Muzammil was killed in his office in the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, on Thursday. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter that the governor had been "martyred in an explosion by the enemies of Islam". The Taliban were ousted as Afghanistan's rulers in 2001 - the militant Islamist group swept back to power in August 2021 after US-led forces pulled out