# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahmad-yusuf-nuristani
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:26:22.331Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ahmad-yusuf-nuristani"
name: "Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani"
slug: "ahmad-yusuf-nuristani"
description: "Dr. Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani is a former politician from Afghanistan. He served as governor of Herat province from January 2009 to August 2010. In September 2018, President Ashraf Ghani appointed Nuristani to the Meshrano Jirga, the upper body of parliament in Afghanistan. From 2005 to 2008 he was the 1st Deputy Defense Minister, Government of Afghanistan. He was recently convicted in the United States and in Afghanistan."
tagline: "Politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nuristani_in_December_2009-cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.58
  momentum:             3.881856540084388
  historical:           4.411844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "احمد يوسف نورستانى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "یوسف نورستانی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "احمد يوسف نورستاني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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