Abdul Salam Hanafi
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Abdul Salam Hanafi عبدالسلام حنفی | |
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 Hanafi in 2019 | |
| Second Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Affairs of Afghanistan | |
| Assumed office 7 September 2021 | |
| Leader | Hibatullah Akhundzada |
| Prime Minister | Hassan Akhund |
| Preceded by | Hasan Akhund (2001) |
| Deputy Minister of Education | |
| In office c. 1996 – c. 2001 | |
| Minister | Amir Khan Muttaqi |
| Leader | Mohammed Omar |
| Succeeded by | Sakhaullah (2021) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Abdul Salam Hanafi 1969 (age 56–57) |
| Occupation | Politician, Taliban member |
| Political affiliation | Taliban |
| Ethnicity | Uzbek |
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| Afghanistan portal |
Abdul Salam Hanafi[a] (born 1969) is an Afghan politician and cleric who is serving as second deputy prime minister, alongside Abdul Ghani Baradar and Abdul Kabir, of Afghanistan since 2021.
An ethnic Uzbek, Hanafi is one of the senior leaders of the Taliban.[1] He was a central member of the negotiation team in the Qatar office.[2][3] He has also served as deputy minister of education in the Taliban government from 1996–2001. After the Taliban government collapse in 2001, following the United States invasion of Afghanistan, Hanafi was appointed by the Taliban leadership as a top general to oversee the Taliban’s military activities in Jowzjan Province, Northern Afghanistan from May 2007 until sometime in 2008.[4]
Abdul Salam Hanafi is from Jowzjan Province, which is located in northern Afghanistan.[5] He has studied at various religious seminaries including Jamia Darul Uloom, Karachi, Pakistan. Hanafi is given the esteemed title of Mawlawi, a title given to those who studied at religious schools or Madrasas.[citation needed] He has also been teaching at Kabul University for some time. Abdul Salam Hanafi has been part of the Taliban movement from the beginning. However, he is generally known among the Taliban as an Alim-e Din (scholar of the faith).[6]