The Most Famous
EXTREMISTS from Afghanistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Afghan Extremists. The pantheon dataset contains 283 Extremists, 1 of which were born in Afghanistan. This makes Afghanistan the birth place of the 30th most number of Extremists behind Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Venezuela.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Afghan Extremists of all time. This list of famous Afghan Extremists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jalaluddin Haqqani (1939 - 2018)
With an HPI of 54.79, Jalaluddin Haqqani is the most famous Afghan Extremist. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.
Jalaluddin Haqqani (Pashto: جلال الدين حقاني, romanized: Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī) (1939 – 3 September 2018) was an Afghan insurgent commander who founded the Haqqani network, an insurgent group who fought in guerilla warfare against US-led NATO forces and the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan government that they supported. He distinguished himself as an internationally sponsored insurgent fighter in the 1980s during the Soviet–Afghan War, including in Operation Magistral. He earned U.S. praise and was called "goodness personified" by the U.S. officials. US officials have admitted that during the Soviet–Afghan War, he was a prized asset of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Former U.S. president Ronald Reagan called Jalaluddin Haqqani a "freedom fighter" during the Soviet–Afghan War. By 2004, he was directing pro-Taliban insurgent group to launch a holy war in Afghanistan. In 2016, U.S. Lieutenant General John W. Nicholson Jr. claimed that the U.S. and NATO were not targeting Haqqani's network in Afghanistan. Media reports emerged in late July 2015 that Haqqani had died the previous year. According to the reports, he died in Afghanistan and was buried in Khost Province of Afghanistan. These reports were denied by the Taliban and some members of the Haqqani family. On 3 September 2018, the Taliban released a statement announcing that Haqqani had died after a long illness in Afghanistan.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Afghan extremists born between 1939 and 1939. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Afghan extremists include Jalaluddin Haqqani.