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Pashtun politicians

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President of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014

Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi is a Pakistani former cricketer, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022. As a cricketer, he captained the Pakistan national cricket team to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. After retiring from cricket, he founded the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Pakistan's first cancer hospital. He is the founder of the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and was its chairman from 1996 to 2023.

Mohammad Najibullah

4th General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

3rd General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (1929–1996)

Abdullah Abdullah

Afghan politician

Ghulam Ishaq Khan

7th President of Pakistan (1915-2006)

Shukria Barakzai

Afghan politician

Abdul Rahim Hatif

politician, former President of Afghanistan (1992)

Afghan politician, secular activist and journalist (1865–1933)

Ahmed Wali Karzai

Afghan politician (1961-2011)

Afghan politician

Obaidullah Akhund

Taliban politician (c. 1968–2010)

Abdul Rahim Wardak

Afghan general and politician

Pakistani economist and strategist (1929–2024)

Masuma Esmati-Wardak

Afghan politician

Safia Ahmed-jan

Women's rights advocate from Afghanistan (1941-2006)

Mohammad Aslam Watanjar

Afghan politician (1946-2000)

Gul Agha Sherzai

Afghan politician of Iraqi origin

Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal

Afghan politician (1921-1973)

Shinkai Karokhail

Afghan politician

Fazal-ur-Rehman

Pakistani politician

Mohammad Hanif Atmar

Afghan politician and foreign minister

Qazi Hussain Ahmad

Islamist political party president (1938–2013)

Abdur Rab Nishtar

Pakistani politician (1899–1958)

Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai

Afghan politician (1944–2021)

former Minister

Pakistani politician

Afghan Prime Minister (1910-1982)

Afghan physician and politician

Aftab Ahmad Sherpao

Pakistani politician

politician in Pakistan

Sami-ul-Haq (18 December 19372 November 2018) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and politician. He is regarded as the ideologue of the Taliban for his role in his seminary Darul Uloom Haqqania played in the graduation of most Taliban leaders and commanders, having close ties to Taliban leader Mullah Omar.

Khan Abdul Wali Khan

Senior politician in Pakistan, President of Awami National Party (1917–2006)

Khan Abdul Ghani Khan

Pashtun Poet (1914–1996)

Asfandyar Wali Khan

Pashtun Politician

Pakistani writer and politician (1925–2010)

Afghan politician

Afghan politician (1917-1998)

Muhammad Khan Achakzai

Pakistani politician

Abdul Salam Zaeef

Afghan politician

Ayesha Gulalai Wazir

Pakistani politician

Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil

Afghan politician

Mir Akbar Khyber

Afghan politician (1925-1978)

Jan Mohammad Khan

Afghan politician

Nilofar Bakhtiar

Pakistani public official

Siraj-ul-Haq (Pashto: سراج الحق; born 5 September 1962) is a Pakistani politician who was elected as the chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, a religious political party in Pakistan which seeks to establish an Islamic legal system. He also served as the Finance minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa twice; first in the cabinet of Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani, from 2002-2007, and again minister during Pervez Khattak's tenure as Chief Minister.

Afghan politician

Anwar ul-Haq Ahady

Afghan politician

Ghulam Haider Hamidi

former mayor of Kandahar (1947-2011)

Noorul Haq Al Qadri

politician in Pakistan

Afghani politician (b. 1981)

Afghan politician

Gul Agha Ishakzai

Finance Minister of Afghanistan since 2021

Malik Barkat Ali

Indian politician (1886–1946)

Nur ul-Haq Ulumi

Afghan politician

Ghulam Mohammad Farhad

Afghan politician (1901-1984)

Qari Ahmadullah

Afghan politician

Afghan politician

Afghan politician