poet, philosopher and Isma'ili scholar, died in Yamgan, Badakhshan Bairam Khan, 16th-century important military commander, and later commander-in-chief of the Mughal army, a powerful statesman and regent at the court of the Mughal Emperors, Humayun and Akbar Fawzia Koofi, noted Afghan women's rights activist, member of Parliament and 2014 presidential candidate Ustad Ahmad Lahauri, Chief architect of the Taj Mahal Miri Maftun, Afghan musician from Badakhshan. Zulmai Mujadidi, Member of Parliament representing Badakhshan Latif Pedram, political activist and candidate for Afghanistan's presidency Burhanuddin Rabbani, leader of the Jamiat-e Islami political party and former president of Afghanistan Qari Fasihuddin, Army Chief, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan See also Dorah Pass Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region References Further reading Burhanuddin Kushkaki. Rāhnamā-yi Qaṭaghan va Badakhshān. Kabul: Vizarat-i Ḥarbiyah, 1923. Jan-Heeren Grevemeyer: Herrschaft, Raub und Gegenseitigkeit: Die politische Geschichte Badakhshans 1500–1883, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1982 Wolfgang Holzwarth: Segmentation und Staatsbildung in Afghanistan: Traditionale sozio-politische Organisation in Badakhshan, Wakhan und Sheghnan In: Berliner Institut für vergleichende Sozialforschung [Red.: Kurt Greussing u. Jan-Heeren Grevemeyer] (Hrsg.): Revolution in Iran und Afghanistan – mardom nameh – Jahrbuch zur Geschichte und Gesellschaft des Mittleren Orients Syndikat, Frankfurt am Main 1980, . External links Badkhshan Province – Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development Provinces of Afghanistan Provinces of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan