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Jalaluddin Haqqani

1939 - 2018

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jalaluddin Haqqani has received more than 898,843 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Jalaluddin Haqqani is the 136th most popular extremist (down from 71st in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 42nd in 2019) and the most popular Afghan Extremist.

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  • 900k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Jalaluddin Haqqani ranks 136 out of 283. Before him are Rafael Caro Quintero, Josef Blösche, Robert Stroud, Albert Anastasia, Charles Whitman, and Fred West. After him are Richard Chase, Joseph Bonanno, Patricia Krenwinkel, Sam Giancana, Leon Czolgosz, and Ahmed Jabari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Jalaluddin Haqqani ranks 171. Before him are Alberto Festa, Wendy Carlos, Jorge Paulo Lemann, Yoshinobu Ishii, Susan Flannery, and John Badham. After him are Alfredo Palacio, Russell Means, Judy Chicago, Boris Kolker, Telesphore Toppo, and R. Budd Dwyer. Among people deceased in 2018, Jalaluddin Haqqani ranks 136. Before him are Yoshinobu Ishii, Katherine MacGregor, John Sulston, M. Karunanidhi, Robert Morris, and Moshé Mizrahi. After him are Roger Piantoni, Eunice Gayson, Ola Ullsten, Trần Đại Quang, Walter Mischel, and Sergio Marchionne.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Jalaluddin Haqqani ranks 71 out of 177. Before him are Ahmad Zahir (1946), Muhammad Shah (1702), Dost Mohammad Khan (1793), Eucratides I (-170), Rabia Balkhi (1000), and Khvandamir (1475). After him are Diodotus II (-252), Abdullah Abdullah (1960), Mohammad Afzal Khan (1811), Diodotus I (-285), Humaira Begum (1918), and Mawdud of Ghazni (1012).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Afghanistan

Among extremists born in Afghanistan, Jalaluddin Haqqani ranks 1. 

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