Abdul Rahman Pazhwak diplomat, scholar and poet Abdul Qadir (Afghan communist) Afghan politician, diplomat, and military officer Mohammed Aziz Khan Afghan prince and diplomat Abdur Rahim Khan (governor)Afghan governor of Herat Abdul Rashid Dostum Afghan warlord Juma Khan Hamdard governor of Paktia Province from 2007 to 2015 Al-Sari ibn al-Hakam(died November 820) served twice as the Abbasid Caliphate's governor of Egypt. Sayed Mohammad Ali Jawid Afghan politician Khairullah Khairkhwa current Afghan Minister of Information and Culture and a former Minister of the Interior. Kubra Noorzai Afghan politician. She was the first woman to become a government minister in the country. Nasima Razmyar Afghan-Finnish politician, elected to the Finnish Parliament in 2015 Mohammad Nabi Omari Afghan politician, governor of Khost province and held for nearly twelve years in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Abdul Ali Mazari political leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat party Ahmad ibn Nizam al-Mulk Born in Balkh, Persian vizier of the Seljuq Empire and then the Abbasid Caliphate. Shah Mahmud Khan Prime Minister of Afghanistan from May 1946 to 7 September 1953, under King Mohammed Zahir Shah's monarchy Abdul Hadi Dawi Afghan poet, diplomat and government official. Military figures Kamal al-Din Gurg (died late 1315 or early 1316), was a general of the Delhi Sultanate ruler Alauddin Khalji. Adham Khan a general of Akbar the Great, third Mughal empire Mullah Omar Mujahideen leader, co-founder of the Taliban and served as its first leader Ahmad Shah Massoud military commander Jalaluddin Haqqani Afghan insurgent commander who founded the Haqqani network Ala al-Dawla Mirza a Timurid prince and a grandson of the Central Asian ruler Shah Rukh Bairam Khan military commander and commander-in-chief of the Mughal army Wazir Akbar Khan Afghan prince, general and Emir Habibullāh Kalakāni leader of the Saqqawists Abdul Qadir (Afghan communist) military officer in the Afghan Air Force Commander Shafi Hazara ethnic Hazara military commander in Afghanistan Kabir Andarabi military official Abdul Rasul Sayyaf mujahideen commander Dadullah Taliban's senior military commander in Afghanistan until his death in 2007 Obaidullah Akhund Defence Minister in the Afghan Taliban government of 1996–2001 Amin Wardak major Afghan mujahideen leader Abdul Raziq Achakzai Afghan Army Lieutenant General and Police Chief, was considered to be one of the most powerful security officials in Afghanistan for the last few years of his life Tahir ibn Husayn General and Governor of Khurasan during the Abbasid caliphate Masrur al-Balkhi senior military officer in