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In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm. Such deaths have most often been from natural causes, but there are also cases of ...
Ashraf Ghani. Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai[ a] (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan former politician, academic, and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014 until August 2021, when his government was overthrown by the Taliban . Ghani was born in Logar, Afghanistan. After his grade-school education in Afghanistan ...
List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom. Top left: Robert Walpole is considered the first prime minister of Great Britain. Top right: Winston Churchill was prime minister during much of World War II. Bottom left: Margaret Thatcher was the first female prime minister. Bottom right: Keir Starmer is the incumbent prime minister.
Afghan Civil War. War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar[ a] (born 1 August 1949) [ 2] is an Afghan politician, and former mujahideen leader and drug trafficker. He is the founder and current leader of the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin political party, so called after Mohammad Yunus Khalis split from Hezbi Islami in 1979 to found Hezb-i ...
e. Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, DL, JP, FRS [ 1] (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach.
Hasan Akhund. Mohammad Hasan Akhund[ b] (born c. 1945 – c. 1950 or c. 1955 – c. 1958) is an Afghan mullah, politician and Taliban leader who is currently the acting prime minister of Afghanistan in the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime since 7 September 2021. [ 4] Akhund is one of the founding members of the Taliban and has been a ...
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet, and selects its ministers. As modern prime ministers hold office by virtue of their ability to command the confidence of the House of Commons ...
Mohammad Daoud Khan (Pashto: محمد داود خان; also romanized as Daud Khan [2] or Dawood Khan; [3] 18 July 1909 – 28 April 1978) was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973 Afghan coup d'état which overthrew the monarchy, served as the first president of Afghanistan from 1973 until his ...