Toryalai Wesa

Tooryalai Wesa توريالی ویسا
Wesa inside the governor's house in Kandahar (April 2012)
Governor of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
In office 19 December 2008 – 26 April 2015
Preceded by	Rahmatullah Raufi
Succeeded by	Humayoon Azizi
Personal details
Born	c. 1949 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
Spouse(s)	Rangina

Tooryalai Wesa (Pashto: توريالی ویسا‎; born c. 1949) is a politician in Afghanistan. He was Governor of Kandahar Province from December 2008 to 2014.

Wesa was born in a village near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. He belongs to the Pashtun group, possibly the Mohammadzai Branch of Barakzai tribe.

After securing his BS in Agricultural Economics and Extension from the Faculty of Agriculture at Kabul University in 1973, he pursued his MS at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Due to the start of the Lebanese Civil War, he travelled to the United States where he studied at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He received his MS in 1977 before returning to Afghanistan.

Wesa was named senior advisor to the Afghan Minister for Higher Education in 1989 and returned to his native city in 1991 as the founding president of Kandahar University. He and the family were forced to leave the country after Gul Agha Sherzai and other warlords fought for control over Kandahar. From 1993 to 1994, he served as a guest lecturer in the University of Zurich, Switzerland.