# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gul-agha-sherzai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:39:52.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gul-agha-sherzai"
name: "Gul Agha Sherzai"
slug: "gul-agha-sherzai"
description: "Gul Agha Sherzai, also known as Mohammad Shafiq, is a politician and former warlord in Afghanistan. He is a former governor of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan. He previously served as Governor of Kandahar province, in the early 1990s and from 2001 until 2003. In October 2013, Sherzai resigned from his post as governor and formally announced himself as a candidate for Afghanistan's 2014 Presidential Election, and served as the minister of border and tribal affairs until the Taliban captured Afghanistan again in 2021."
tagline: "Politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gul_Agha.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.48
  momentum:             0.3882195448460509
  historical:           10.29460266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "گل آغا شیرزئی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "غل أغا شيرزي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "গুল আগা শিরজ়াই"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gul Agha Schersai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gul_Agha_Sherzai"
    title: "Gul Agha Sherzai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "گل‌آغا شیرزی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gul Agha Sherzai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gul_Aga_Sirzai"
    title: "Gul Aga Sirzai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B5%B4_%EC%95%84%EA%B7%B8%ED%95%98_%EC%8B%9C%EB%A5%B4%EC%9E%90%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "굴 아그하 시르자이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ګل آغا شېرزی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%90%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B9"
    title: "Гуль Ага Шерзай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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