# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abdul-basir-salangi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:39:27.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abdul-basir-salangi"
name: "Abdul Basir Salangi"
slug: "abdul-basir-salangi"
description: "Abdul Basir Salangi or Abdul Baseer Salangi, born on 8 August 1962 in Parwan, is the ethnic Tajik who has been a former Governor of Farah province in Afghanistan, and a commander in the Afghan Civil War, aligned with Jamiat-e Islami and Ahmad Shah Massoud. Additionally, he was chief of Kabul after the 2001 fall of the Taliban regime, until he was replaced by General Baba Jan after being indicted in the Shinpur scandal."
tagline: "Afghan governor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Abdul_Basir_Salangi_speaking_in_October_2011-cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1962-08-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.51
  momentum:             15.29192546583851
  historical:           4.603744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Basir_Salangi"
    title: "Abdul Basir Salangi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Basir_Salangi"
    title: "Abdul Basir Salangi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B5%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "عبدالبصیر سالنگی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Basir_Salangi"
    title: "Abdul Basir Salangi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%8A"
    title: "عبدالبصير سالنگي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q256336"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump