Lt General Rahmatullah Raufi (born 1946 in Wardak Province, Afghanistan)[1] is a former governor of Kandahar from August 2008 until he was fired on December 4, 2008[2] for unknown reasons. Before that he was a senior military commander of the Afghan National Army presently commanding the 205th Corps, which is responsible for Afghanistan's restive southern provinces.https://web.archive.org/web/20060615095654/http://www.crisscross.com/jp/news/375488 He was the main Afghan commander of government forces in Operation Mountain Thrust.
He was replaced by Afghan-Canadian academic Tooryalai Wesa.[3]