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Amrullah Saleh

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Amrullah Saleh (Pashto/Dari: امرالله صالح, Dari pronunciation: [amrʊlˈlɒːh sɒːˈleː(h)]; born 15 October 1972) is an Afghan politician who served as the first vice president of Afghanistan from February 2020 to August 2021, and acting interior minister from 2018 to 2019. He was the head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) from 2004 to 2010. A member of the mujahideen during the civil war against Afghanistan's communist government, Saleh later joined Ahmad Shah Massoud's Northern Alliance, an anti-Taliban coalition in the northeast of the country. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amrullah Saleh has received more than 1,352,513 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Amrullah Saleh is the 12,477th most popular politician (down from 10,801st in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 83rd in 2019) and the 63rd most popular Afghan Politician.

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  • 57.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Amrullah Saleh ranks 12,477 out of 19,576. Before him are Louis Charles Delescluze, Luis Sáenz Peña, Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, Sam Webb, Germán Busch, and Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. After him are Hipólito Mejía, Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, Zoskales, Koppány, Rafael Paasio, and Bobby Seale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Amrullah Saleh ranks 93. Before him are Michael Chang, Toto Wolff, Esther Duflo, Alf-Inge Håland, Jonny Lee Miller, and Virgilijus Alekna. After him are Goran Višnjić, Thandie Newton, Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice, Julie Benz, Aafia Siddiqui, and Bae Yong-joon.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Amrullah Saleh ranks 95 out of 177. Before him are Ali Hujwiri (1009), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (1139), Farrukhi Sistani (980), Mahmud Tarzi (1865), and Shah Shujah Durrani (1785). After him are Heliocles I (-200), Kamran Mirza (1512), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), Ayub Khan (1857), Kader Khan (1937), and Amr ibn al-Layth (null).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Amrullah Saleh ranks 63. Before him are Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Abdul Qadir (1944), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (1139), Mahmud Tarzi (1865), and Shah Shujah Durrani (1785). After him are Heliocles I (-200), Kamran Mirza (1512), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), Ayub Khan (1857), Amr ibn al-Layth (null), and Qabus (1000).

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