Sayed Mansoor Naderi سید منصور نادری | |
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 Pencil drawing portrait of Sayed Mansoor Naderi | |
| Incumbent Sayed of Kayan Political Warlord | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sayed Mansoor Naderi January 12, 1936 |
| Nationality | Afghan |
| Political party | National Solidarity Party of Afghanistan |
| Spouse(s) | Mastoora, Parween, and two more wives. |
| Children | Sadat Mansoor Naderi, Farkhunda Zahra Naderi, Sayed Jafar Naderi, Sayed Jawid Naderi, Sayed Atash Naderi, Suraya Naderi, Sayed Ershad Naderi |
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| Residence(s) | Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
| Religion | Ismaili |
| House | Sayed of Kayan |
| Ethnicity | Sadat[1] |
Sayed Mansur Naderi is incumbent Sayed of Kayan; leader of Ismaili Shi'a community of Afghanistan centred in Baghlan Province and also in other parts of Afghanistan. This community although Shia is smaller than the mainstream Twelver Shia community in Afghanistan.[2]
Naderi served the Afghan monarchy, later the communist government and served as vice president during Majahiden government and in the 1980s, was expelled from his region by the Taliban, and returned to Baghlan following the fall of the Taliban. He was elected to the Wolesi Jirga (lower house of the Afghan Parliament) in 2005, and was the founder of the ismaili-based National Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (Paiwand Milli).[3]
His son Sayed Jafar Naderi also achieved military advances in Baghlan during Soviet-Afghan War, becoming popular as Warlord of Kayan and later appointed as Governor of Baghlan Province post the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.[4][5]
His son Sayed Jafar Naderi was appointed security advisor to Afghan first vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum in 2014.[6]
Sayed Mansoor's daughter Farkhunda Zahra Naderi is a well-known rights activist in Afghanistan and also serves as member of Afghan parliament elected in 2010 with the highest vote from Kabul province.[7]
Sadat Mansoor Naderi, his another son nominated by Afghan president Ashraf Ghani as Urban Development Minister, assumed office on April 22, 2015. After that in 2020, he was appointed as Minister at Afghanistan's State Ministry for Peace. [8]
- ^ "Ismailis of Afghanistan - by Mumtaz Ali Tajjdin - Ismailis".
- ^ Rubin, B.R. (2002). The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300095197.
- ^ "Country Of Origin Information Report Afghanistan" (PDF). UK Border Agency. 18 February 2009.
- ^ Author: Hakimi, Aziz Ahmed. Title: Fighting for Patronage: American counterinsurgency and the Afghan Local Police. Publisher: University of London. Date: 23.07.2015. Access date: 04.04.2024.
- ^ Publisher: Parliament of Australia. Published Date: 31 Sep 1992. Accessed Date: 04.04.2024. Title: Afghanistan: the politics of disintegration. URL: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22library%2Fprspub%2FWMH10%22;src1=sm1
- ^ "Sayed Jafar appointed as Afghanistan First Vice President's security advisor". Khaama Press. 17 November 2014.
- ^ "Report by Huffington Post on Farkhunda Zahra Naderi". HuffPost. 10 March 2014.
- ^ "Sadat, Assumed office". Khaama Press. 22 April 2015.