Amrullah Saleh

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Amrullah Saleh at a conference of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin (2011)

Amrullah Saleh ( Pashtun and Persian امرالله صالح, DMG Amrullāh Ṣāliḥ ; * 1971 ) is an Afghan politician, current Vice President and former head of the Afghan secret service NDS (2004–2010). From December 2018 to January 2019 he was Minister of the Interior of Afghanistan.

Life

In 1997, at the age of 24, he became the contact of the United Front for international aid organizations and foreign secret services. The United Front fought from 1995 to 2001 under the leadership of Ahmad Shah Massoud against the Afghan Taliban and the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda . After the fall of the Taliban regime, Amrullah Saleh was appointed director of the Afghan National Directorate of Security in 2004. In June 2010 he resigned from this post due to political differences with President Hamid Karzai .

At the end of 2010 Saleh founded a political movement, the “National Movement”, also known as “Afghanistan Green Trend”, against “Talibanization” and for the democratization of Afghanistan. Politically close are the Pashtun Hanif Atmar (former interior minister), Abdullah Abdullah (Karzai's strongest opponent in the 2009 presidential elections), Ustad Atta Mohammad Noor (governor of Balch ) and Ahmad Zia Massoud Amrullah Saleh. In May 2011, more than 10,000 of his supporters demonstrated in the capital Kabul against the violence of the Taliban in Afghanistan. According to the United Nations, the Taliban were responsible for 76% of the civilian deaths in Afghanistan in 2009, 75% in 2010 and 80% in 2011.

Amrullah Saleh criticized Pakistan's support for the Taliban and described Pakistan as a "hostile country". The biggest problem is that Pakistan offers the Taliban leaders a safe haven.

In January 2012, Amrullah Saleh signed a joint declaration with the National Front, which is seen as the successor organization to the United Front (Northern Alliance), and US congressmen after a meeting in Berlin. She calls for the involvement of the anti-Taliban Afghans in the peace process, the strengthening of regional and national institutions, and a change in voting rights.

On December 23, 2018, President Ghani nominated him as Minister of the Interior.

In order to run as Vice President under the current President Ashraf Ghani in the Afghan presidential election on September 28, 2019 , Amrullah Saleh stepped down from the position of Minister of the Interior in January 2019.

On July 28, 2019, he survived an attack on the headquarters of his party "Afghanistan Green Trend", in which 20 people were killed and around 50 injured.

Web links

Commons : Amrullah Saleh  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pakistan "hostile country". In: ORF . May 16, 2011, accessed May 16, 2011 .
  2. ↑ The Green Trend mobilization. In: AAN. May 18, 2011, accessed January 2012 .
  3. ^ Thousands of Afghans Rally in Kabul. In: New York Times . May 5, 2011, accessed May 16, 2011 .
  4. ↑ UN: Taliban Responsible for 76% of Deaths in Afghanistan . In: The Weekly Standard , August 10, 2010. 
  5. ^ Afghan Rights Groups Shift Focus to Taliban . In: The New York Times , February 13, 2011. 
  6. ↑ Citing rising death toll, UN urges better protection of Afghan civilians . In: United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan , March 9, 2011. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. 
  7. ↑ Charles W. Kegley, Shannon L Blanton: World Politics: Trend and Transformation . Cengage, 2011, ISBN 978-0495906551 , p. 230.
  8. ↑ Pakistan is said to have known bin Laden's hiding place . In: Sueddeutsche Zeitung , May 16, 2011. 
  9. ^ Rep. Rohrabacher Leads Bipartisan Delegation's Afghanistan Strategy Session With National Front Leaders in Berlin. (No longer available online.) In: rohrabacher.house.gov. January 9, 2012, archived from the original on September 16, 2012 ; accessed on January 14, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Ghani appoints Pakistan critics to top security posts. Afghan president nominates new heads for defense, interior ministries. December 24, 2018, accessed December 24, 2018 .
  11. ^ Afghan interior minister resigns to join President Ghani's election ... In: Reuters . January 19, 2019 ( reuters.com [accessed March 13, 2019]).
  12. ↑ tagesschau.de: Dead in attack on party headquarters in Kabul. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Saleh, Amrullah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan politician, former intelligence officer and activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971