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Mir Rahman Rahmani is an Afghan statesman. He was Speaker of the National Assembly of Afghanistan.

Biography
Mir Rahman Rahmani was born in Bagram County, Parwan Province in 1962. By nationality, he is an ethnic Tajik. In 1979 he graduated from the secondary school in Bagram, after which he studied at one of the military universities of the USSR. He served in the Afghan army.

After the Taliban took Kabul in 1996, Rahmani joined the Northern Alliance. Shortly before the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, he commanded a Northern Alliance unit in Bagram.

In 2002, he retired from the army with the rank of General, and began to establish a transport business in the province of Parwan. In 2006, he founded the Ajmal Rahmani Charity Foundation. From 2007 to 2010 he headed the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the province. In 2010, Rahmani was elected to the People’s Chamber of Afghanistan and re-elected in 2019. On June 29, 2019, he was elected Speaker of the People’s Chamber. He won 123 votes while his rival, Kamal Nasser Osuli, won 55. In 2020, Qatar’s Al Jazeera TV campaign reported that Mir Rahman Rahmani had bought Cypriot citizenship. In February 2020, Rahmani led a delegation of the Afghan parliament in Moscow.

After Kabul fell again on August 15, 2021, Rahmani fled to Pakistan. In May 2022, he participated in the Anti-Taliban Opposition Forum convened in Turkey by Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum.

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Politicians of Afghanistan