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Akhtar Mansour

1968 - 2016

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Akhtar Mohammad Mansour (1959 – 21 May 2016) was an Afghan militant who served as the second supreme leader of the Taliban from 2015 until his assassination in a US drone strike in Balochistan, Pakistan in 2016. He was a close aide and successor of the Taliban's founding leader, Mullah Omar. United States president Barack Obama stated that Mansour was killed because he was planning attacks on US targets in Kabul. Obama hoped Mansour's death would lead to the Taliban joining a peace process. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2024). Akhtar Mansour is the 8,876th most popular politician (up from 13,579th in 2024), the 75th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 104th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Afghan Politician.

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Among politicians, Akhtar Mansour ranks 8,876 out of 19,576. Before him are Ghulam Ishaq Khan, José Félix Estigarribia, John Doukas, Roger III of Sicily, Thyra, and Tato. After him are Matti Vanhanen, Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, Bob Dole, Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, Tai Kang, and Joanna, Duchess of Brabant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Akhtar Mansour ranks 70. Before him are Colin McRae, Tracy Morgan, Larry Sanger, Vítor Pereira, Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein, and Mark Fisher. After him are Thom Yorke, Patricia Arquette, Terry Crews, Slaven Bilić, Halla Tómasdóttir, and Tricky. Among people deceased in 2016, Akhtar Mansour ranks 169. Before him are Abe Vigoda, Mark Taimanov, Chus Lampreave, Ilse Aichinger, Ferdinand Kübler, and Michu Meszaros. After him are Qahhor Mahkamov, Curtis Hanson, Trifon Ivanov, Black, Arnold Wesker, and Sixto Durán Ballén.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Akhtar Mansour ranks 75 out of 177. Before him are Abdul Ghani Baradar (1968), Sanai (1080), Al-Sijzi (945), Diodotus II (-252), Kujula Kadphises (20), and Jalaluddin Haqqani (1939). After him are Ahmad Zahir (1946), Diodotus I (-285), Ismail Khan (1946), Gulbadan Begum (1523), Baysunghur (1397), and Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar (840).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Akhtar Mansour ranks 52. Before him are Zaman Shah Durrani (1770), Inayatullah Khan (1888), Ayub Khan (1857), Abdul Ghani Baradar (1968), Diodotus II (-252), and Kujula Kadphises (20). After him are Diodotus I (-285), Ismail Khan (1946), Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar (840), Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), Abdullah Abdullah (1960), and Muhammad of Ghazni (998).

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