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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 ...
The prime minister of Afghanistan, officially the prime minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan[ note 1], is the head of government of Afghanistan. [ 4] The position was created in 1927 as an official appointed by the king of Afghanistan. The holder served mostly as an advisor, until the end of the Kingdom of Afghanistan in 1973.
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.
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 ...
Johnny Mercer (politician) John Luther Mercer (born 17 August 1981) is a former British Conservative Party politician and former British Army officer who served as Minister of State for Veterans’ Affairs from July to September 2022 and from October 2022 to July 2024. He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence People and ...