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Abdul Salam Hanafi

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Abdul Salam Hanafi
عَبْدَالسَّلَامُ حَنَفٍی
Hanafi in 2019
Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Affairs of Afghanistan[broken anchor]
Acting
Assumed office
7 September 2021
LeaderHibatullah Akhundzada
Prime MinisterHassan Akhund (acting)
Personal details
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Sheberghan, Afghanistan
Political affiliationTaliban
EthnicityUzbek

Abdul Salam Hanafi Uzbek/Dari: عَبْدَالسَّلَامُ حَنَفٍی) is an Afghan Uzbek political and Deobandi-Islamic[1] religious leader. He is a senior leader of the Taliban, an acting second deputy prime minister, alongside Abdul Ghani Baradar and Abdul Kabir, of Afghanistan since 2021.

Abdul Salam Hanafi is from Jowzjan Province in northern Afghanistan.[2] He has studied at various religious seminaries in Karachi, Pakistan.

Early life and education

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An ethnic Uzbek, Hanafi was born in 1969 in Jowzjan Province.[3]

He later moved to Pakistan for further religious studies. He studied the traditional Islamic sciences, mathematics, logic and other subjects at a university called Jamia Darul Uloom in Karachi.

Outside religion he also studied computer science, accounting and languages, mastering, outside his native Uzbek, Pashto, Persian, English, Arabic, Urdu, Kyrgyz, Turkmen and Turkish.

References

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  1. "Abdul Salam Hanafi". Counter Extremism Project. Archived from the original on 2022-05-08. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  2. "Who is who in Taliban's caretaker cabinet?". Pajhwok Afghan News. September 9, 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-10-18. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  3. "Translation of the biographies of the Taleban negotiation team". Afghanistan Analysts Network. 21 September 2020. Archived from the original on 2022-03-13. Retrieved 2022-03-14.