ДЄfter the Septemattacks in the United States, Saleh participated in leading intelligence operations of the United Front on the ground during the toppling of the Taliban regime. In October 1996, Amarullah Saleh arranged a meeting between Bharath Raj Muthu Kumar and Ahmad Shah Massoud to arrange equipment and help from New Delhi. In 1997, Saleh was appointed by Massoud to lead the United Front's international liaison office at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, where he served as a coordinator for non-governmental (humanitarian) organizations and as a liaison partner for foreign intelligence agencies. In the late 1990s, Saleh was a member of the Northern Alliance (also known as the United Front) and was fighting against the Taliban expansion. He received military training in neighboring Pakistan and fought under mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud.

In 1990, in order to avoid being conscripted into the Soviet-backed Afghan army, Saleh joined the opposition mujahideen forces. He speaks fluent English and has a basic knowledge of Russian. His elder sister, Mariam, was tortured by the Taliban in 1996 in an attempt to uncover his location. Another of his brothers, Rohullah Azizi, was executed by the Taliban in September 2021.

In his youth, two of his brothers died in politically-motivated killings. He was orphaned at the age of 7, resulting in severe financial hardship for his family. Saleh spent much of his childhood in the capital city of Kabul. Saleh was born on 15 October 1972 in the Panjshir region of what was then the Kingdom of Afghanistan. He has been described as combative and as having a hard-working nature, while being an outspoken critic of the Taliban and Pakistan. Saleh was a powerful political figure in Afghanistan and had been the target of numerous assassination attempts. Though his current whereabouts remain unconfirmed, the current ceasefire is considered to be a tactical retreat to carry on the resistance by some media outlets. Saleh fled to Tajikistan shortly after the Taliban seized control of most of Panjshir on 6 September 2021.

There, Saleh proclaimed himself the caretaker president of Afghanistan and announced the formation of the National Resistance Front, an anti-Taliban resistance movement, alongside Ahmad Massoud. Ghani's ticket won the election, and Saleh became first vice president in February 2020.ДЇollowing the 2021 fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Ghani fled the country and Saleh relocated to the Panjshir Valley. Saleh became the acting Minister of Interior Affairs in December 2018, but resigned less than a month later to become Ghani's running mate for first vice president in the 2019 presidential election. In March 2017, he was appointed State Minister for Security Reforms by President Ashraf Ghani, serving until his resignation in June of that year. Saleh resigned from the NDS in 2010 amidst worsening relations with President Hamid Karzai, founding Basej-e Milli ('National Movement'), a pro-democracy and anti-Taliban political party, shortly afterward. As head of the NDS, Saleh directed efforts to infiltrate the Taliban and locate Osama bin Laden. In 1997, Saleh became the head of the Northern Alliance's liaison office inside the Afghan Embassy in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, handling contacts with international non-governmental organizations and intelligence agencies. ДЄ member of the mujahideen during the civil war against Afghanistan's communist government, Saleh later joined Ahmad Shah Massoud's Northern Alliance, an anti- Taliban coalition in the northeast of the country. He served as the first vice president of Afghanistan from February 2020 to August 2021, as Minister of Interior Affairs from 2018 to 2019, and as head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) from 2004 until his resignation in 2010. Amrullah Saleh ( Dari: Ш§Щ…Ш±Ш§Щ„Щ„Щ‡ ШµШ§Щ„Ш born 15 October 1972) is an Afghan politician who has claimed the powers and duties of the Afghan presidency since 17 August 2021.

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