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Abdul Rashid Dostum

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Abdul Rashid Dostum ( AHB-dəl rə-SHEED doh-STOOM; Dari: عبدالرشید دوستم; Uzbek Latin: Abdurrashid Do'stum, Uzbek Cyrillic: Абдуррашид Дўстум, IPA: [ˈæbdurræˈʃid dosˈtum]; born 25 March 1954) is an Afghan warlord, exiled politician, former Marshal in the Afghan National Army, founder and leader of the political party Junbish-e Milli. Dostum was a major army commander in the communist government during the Soviet–Afghan War, initially part of the Afghan Commando Forces, and in 2001 was a key indigenous ally to U.S. Special Forces and the CIA during the campaign to topple the Taliban government. He is one of the most powerful warlords since the beginning of the Afghan wars, known for siding with winners during different wars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdul Rashid Dostum has received more than 3,147,046 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Abdul Rashid Dostum is the 4,677th most popular politician (down from 2,095th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular Afghan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abdul Rashid Dostum ranks 4,677 out of 19,576. Before him are Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria, Conrad, Duke of Lorraine, István Széchenyi, Quintus Hortensius, and Ashraf Pahlavi. After him are Henri, Prince of Condé, Matthias Gallas, Menander I, Margareta of Romania, Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, and Jovan Vladimir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Abdul Rashid Dostum ranks 49. Before him are Eric Gerets, Ron Howard, Rene Russo, Andrej Babiš, Prayut Chan-o-cha, and Dennis Quaid. After him are Mordechai Vanunu, Uli Stielike, Marian Gold, Michael Dudikoff, Lee Child, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Abdul Rashid Dostum ranks 39 out of 177. Before him are Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890), Bairam Khan (1501), Heracles of Macedon (-327), Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), and Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006). After him are Menander I (-190), Ibn al-Rawandi (827), Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424), Khaled Hosseini (1965), Mas'ud I of Ghazni (998), and Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Abdul Rashid Dostum ranks 28. Before him are Hasan Akhund (1945), Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890), Bairam Khan (1501), Heracles of Macedon (-327), and Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925). After him are Menander I (-190), Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424), Mas'ud I of Ghazni (998), Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947), Tahir ibn Husayn (776), and Sher Ali Khan (1825).

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