# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ismail-khan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:19:47.322Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ismail-khan"
name: "Ismail Khan"
slug: "ismail-khan"
description: "Muhammad Ismail Khan is an Afghan former military officer, warlord and politician who served as Minister of Energy and Water from 2005 to 2013 and before that served as the governor of Herat Province. Originally a captain in the Afghan Army, he is widely known as a former warlord who controlled a large Afghan mujahideen force, mainly his fellow Tajiks from western Afghanistan, during the Soviet–Afghan War."
tagline: "Afghan politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ismail_Khan_in_December_2010-cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1946"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           60.6
  momentum:             7.582552751421003
  historical:           21.549364
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "محمد إسماعيل خان"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ismail Khan"
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    title: "محمد اسماعيل خان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ismail Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ismail Khan"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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