# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/khairullah-khairkhwa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:46:43.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/khairullah-khairkhwa"
name: "Khairullah Khairkhwa"
slug: "khairullah-khairkhwa"
description: "Khairullah Said Wali Khairkhwa is a member of the militant Taliban organization currently in control of Afghanistan, who has previously been called one of the \"moderate\" Taliban. He is the Governor of Maidan Wardak Province. He has previously served as Taliban Minister of Information and Culture and Minister of the Interior. After the fall of the Taliban government in 2001, he was held at the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba for 12 years. He was released in late May 2014 in a prisoner exchange that involved Bowe Bergdahl and the Taliban five. Press reports have referred to him as \"Mullah\" and \"Maulavi\", two different honorifics for referring to senior Muslim clerics."
tagline: "Taliban official and former governor of Herat"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Khairullah_Khairkhwa.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.43
  momentum:             0.2818627450980392
  historical:           7.896870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Хайрхва, Хайрулла"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87_%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "خير الله سعيد والي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87_%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "خير الله سعيد والى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khairullah_Khairkhwa"
    title: "Khairullah Khairkhwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87_%D8%AE%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%87"
    title: "خیرالله خیرخواه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khairullah_Khairkhwa"
    title: "Khairullah Khairkhwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khairullah_Khairkhwa"
    title: "Khairullah Khairkhwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khirullah_Said_Wali_Khairkhwa"
    title: "Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87_%D8%AE%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%87"
    title: "خیرالله خیرخواه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13641293"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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