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Akhtar Mansour

1968 - 2016

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Akhtar Mohammad Mansour (1960s – 21 May 2016) was the second supreme leader of the Taliban. Succeeding the founding leader, Mullah Omar, he was the supreme leader from July 2015 to May 2016, when he was killed in a US drone strike in Balochistan, Pakistan. United States president Barack Obama stated that Mansour was killed because he was planning attacks on US targets in Kabul. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Akhtar Mansour has received more than 1,298,618 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Akhtar Mansour is the 11,192nd most popular politician (up from 13,037th in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Afghanistan and the 61st most popular Afghan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Akhtar Mansour ranks 11,192 out of 15,577Before him are Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern, Artatama II, Richard Huelsenbeck, Cersobleptes, Norbert Walter-Borjans, and Adone Zoli. After him are Andronikos Doukas Angelos, Giovanni Gradenigo, Ed Koch, Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, Wan Li, and Sabah I bin Jaber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Akhtar Mansour ranks 98Before him are Michael Weatherly, Petr Korda, Tony Hawk, Casper Van Dien, Kelly Hu, and Marcus Grönholm. After him are Talant Duyshebaev, Choi Jin-sil, Gary Coleman, Julian McMahon, Olivia Williams, and Martin Dahlin. Among people deceased in 2016, Akhtar Mansour ranks 215Before him are Doris Roberts, Jadranka Stojaković, Sixto Durán Ballén, Raoul Coutard, Leon Russell, and Susannah Mushatt Jones. After him are Jon Polito, Pete Burns, Nina Ponomaryova, Laura Mancinelli, Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, and Jan Němec.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Akhtar Mansour ranks 86 out of 145Before him are Heliocles I (-200), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Rabia Balkhi (1000), Amrullah Saleh (1972), Gulbadan Begum (1523), and Shah Shujah Durrani (1785). After him are Ayub Khan (1857), Ali Hujwiri (1009), Unsuri (980), Farrukhi Sistani (980), Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), and Meena Keshwar Kamal (1956).

Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Akhtar Mansour ranks 61Before him are Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Heliocles I (-200), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Amrullah Saleh (1972), and Shah Shujah Durrani (1785). After him are Ayub Khan (1857), Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), Abdul Qadir (1944), Mahmud Tarzi (1865), Amr ibn al-Layth (null), and Sima Samar (1957).