:Abdul Basir Salangi

Following the fall of the Taliban government in 2001, Salangi was appointed as the chief of police for Kabul. However the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission accused him of bulldozing 300 poor houses in the Shinpur district of Kabul, to clear land for building houses for warlords.[https://web.archive.org/web/20121104101215/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/148353441.html?dids=148353441:148353441&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+12,+2002&author=Mark+Memmott&pub=USA+TODAY&desc=Afghanistan+doing+just+fine,+thank+you+%3B+Violence+not+as+rampant+as+reported,+officials+say&pqatl=google Afghanistan doing just fine, thank you; Violence not as rampant as reported, officials say]. USA Today. August 12, 2002. Following this Salangi was removed from his post and assigned as Police Chief of the volatile Wardak Province where he stayed until 2005. In 2008 Salangi was posted as governor of Parwan.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}}

In 2010, as governor, he directed rescue efforts in the region after an avalanche struck the province.[http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26706959-954,00.html More bodies recovered from Afghan avalanche]. Courier Mail. February 10, 2010.

Salangi has been a target of assassination attempts like many other Afghan politicians and government officials. On August 14, 2011, a team of about six suicide bombers launched a coordinated assault on the governor's palace in Charikar. Although Salangi survived the high-profile assault, 19 other people were killed in the incident. The attack began with a car bomb explosion outside the front gate of his palace followed by suicide bombers storming in and blowing themselves up in the compound. Gen. Abdul Jalil Rahimi of the Afghan National Police said he was at a meeting with Salangi, Afghan army and police officials, and at least two NATO police advisers, when the assault began. He further said that "two of the bombers were able to get into the building of the governor's house", but were killed before they could reach their main targets. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.{{cite news |url=https://news.yahoo.com/19-dead-attack-afghan-governors-compound-094410521.html |title=19 dead in attack on Afghan governor's compound }}

In January 2021, while addressing a memorial ceremony for the victims of the 14 January 1989 massacre{{Cite web|date=2017-01-26|title=Salang Massacre Victims Remembered|url=https://tolonews.com/afghanistan/salang-massacre-victims-remembered|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-17|website=TOLOnews|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126125157/http://www.tolonews.com/afghanistan/salang-massacre-victims-remembered |archive-date=2017-01-26 }} in the Salang district of central Parwan Province, Salangi said that 'if the Taliban were unwilling to embrace peace, the people of Afghanistan would form a second resistance front against them'.{{Cite web|last=Tanha|first=Farid|date=2021-01-26|title=‘Taliban to face 2nd resistance if unwilling to make peace’|url=https://pajhwok.com/2021/01/26/taliban-to-face-2nd-resistance-if-unwilling-to-make-peace/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-17|website=Pajhwok Afghan News|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126150920/https://pajhwok.com/2021/01/26/taliban-to-face-2nd-resistance-if-unwilling-to-make-peace/ |archive-date=2021-01-26 }}

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