Mangal Hussain is an

Afghan Afghan or Afgan may refer to: Related to Afghanistan *Afghans, historically refers to the Pashtun people. It is both an ethnicity and nationality. Ethnicity wise, it refers to the Pashtuns. In modern terms, it means both the citizens of Afghanist ...

who has held a variety of political and military offices. According to the ''

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'' he was one of the most powerful leaders in the Hezbi Islami Gulbuddin, prior to the emergence of the Taliban.

Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai (born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan politician who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014, including as the first president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2004 to 2014. He previously served a ...

appointed Mangal Hussain to his cabinet.

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