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Abdul Rashid Dostum

1954 - Today

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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 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, and in 2001 was the 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 2,873,800 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Abdul Rashid Dostum is the 2,129th most popular politician (up from 4,430th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 34th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Afghan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abdul Rashid Dostum ranks 2,129 out of 15,577. Before him are Gabriel Bethlen, Tiberius II Constantine, Manfred, King of Sicily, Eumenes II, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and Cleomenes I. After him are Liu Shan, Tang of Shang, Albert, King of Sweden, Herennius Etruscus, Eadwig, and Joseph McCarthy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Abdul Rashid Dostum ranks 19. Before him are Oprah Winfrey, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Shinzō Abe, Jean-Claude Juncker, Dieter Bohlen, and Kazuo Ishiguro. After him are Ang Lee, Halimah Yacob, Stieg Larsson, Mario Kempes, Andrej Babiš, and Annie Lennox.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Abdul Rashid Dostum ranks 22 out of 145. Before him are Mohammed Omar (1962), Babrak Karmal (1929), Humayun (1508), Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890), Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1949), and Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917). After him are Ahmad Shah Durrani (1722), Alp-Tegin (963), Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), and Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (1450).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Abdul Rashid Dostum ranks 17. Before him are Mohammed Omar (1962), Babrak Karmal (1929), Humayun (1508), Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890), Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1949), and Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917). After him are Ahmad Shah Durrani (1722), Alp-Tegin (963), Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), Mohammad Najibullah (1947), and Ashraf Ghani (1949).

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