Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi | |
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عبدالسلام حنفی | |
![]() Hanafi in 2019 | |
Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Affairs of Afghanistan | |
Acting | |
Assumed office 7 September 2021 | |
Leader | Hibatullah Akhundzada |
Prime Minister | Hassan Akhund (acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | 1969 (age 54–55) Sheberghan, Afghanistan |
Political affiliation | Taliban |
Ethnicity | Uzbek |
Abdul Salam Hanafi Uzbek/Dari: عبدالسلام حنفی) is an Afghan Uzbek political and Deobandi-Islamic[1] religious leader. He is a senior leader of the Taliban, an acting second deputy prime minister, alongside Abdul Ghani Baradar and Abdul Kabir, of Afghanistan since 2021.
Abdul Salam Hanafi is from Jowzjan Province in northern Afghanistan.[2] He has studied at various religious seminaries in Karachi, Pakistan.