Abdul Malik Pahlawan

Abdul Malik Pahlawan is an Afghan Uzbek warlord and politician based in Faryab Province in northern Afghanistan. He is the head of the Afghanistan Liberation Party and was heavily involved in the factional fighting that consumed Afghanistan throughout the 1990s. His rival for the control of the Uzbek north is fellow warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, and their militias have clashed several times since the fall of the Taliban.