On the next day, the district commissioner suspended our paper.

In the afternoon a group of us called the district commissioner to ask if the British administration had decided to abandon the city.

After the statutory wait of an hour or so, a very charming district commissioner comes to see us.

Each province was divided into a number of districts (managed by a district commissioner).

It housed a district commissioner, police, hospital, veterinary services and other government rural agencies.

Police chiefs and district commissioners attempting to end jirga law find no support from the government.

The only vehicle on this island of 20,000 people belongs to the District Commissioner.

They were controlled by a District Commissioner with civil police as guards.

Local government is administered by central government-appointed regional administrators and district commissioners.

With these skills, he became interpreter for the District Commissioner, an influential post.