Famous People with Name Abdul

Abdul Baser Wasiqi            Origin/Culture/Country: Afghan

Abdul Baser Wasiqi: an Afghan athlete.Wasiqi represented Afghanistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He injured his leg (hamstring muscle) before the marathon, but took part nonetheless.[1] He completed the race despite his injury, after limping the whole way, with a time of 4:24:17, well short of his personal best of two hours and thirty-three minutes.[2][3] He finished 111th and last, nearly an hour and a half behind the second-slowest competitor. Wasiqi reached the stadium and found "workmen [...] preparing the arena for the closing ceremony" and "tarpaulin being laid across the running track".[4][5] Preparations were suspended long enough for Baser to reach the finish line.

Abdul Ahad Wardak            Origin/Culture/Country: Afghan

Abdul Ahad Wardak: he was the son of Kazi Ghulam belongs to Ismail Khel tribe of Ghilzai confederacy from Wardak province, he was titled as "Sardar-i-Ala.". From 1909-16 Abdul Ahad was chief of Ushera, Arzbegi district to Amir Habibullah Khan, next appointed Governor of Kataghan Badakhshan. He was latter arrested with his brother for the assassination of Amir Habibullah Khan in 1919 and jailed, but was later released on bill by Amanullah khan. In 1922 Abdul Ahad was appointed Aide-de-Camp to King Amanullah Khan,sent to Wardak valley during the Mangal rebellion in 1924 to maintain loyalty among the Wardaks

Abdul Ali Mazari            Origin/Culture/Country: Afghan

Abdul Ali Mazari: was a political leader of the Hezbe Wahdat during and following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.[1] He belonged to the Hazara people. He said that the solution to the divisiveness in Afghanistan was in federalism, where every ethnic group would have specific constitutional rights.[2]In his speeches he repeated that his aim is to remove the discrimination against the Hazara's because of biased policies of the central government and will strive to create a situation in Afghanistan where Hazara's will be given access to justice and equality by the center.

Abdul Baqi            Origin/Culture/Country: Afghan

Abdul Baqi: a citizen of Afghanistan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.[1] Abdul Baqi's Guantanamo detainee ID number is 656. American intelligence analysts estimate that Abdul Baqi was born in 1942, in Tark Itmak, Afghanistan.Since Baqi's name is not on the list of detainess whose classification was reviewed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal he was released before July 2004 when the Tribunals started working.[2]

Abdul Salam Zaeef            Origin/Culture/Country: Afghan

Abdul Salam Zaeef: was the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan before the US invasion of Afghanistan.He was detained in Pakistan in the spring of 2002 and became an "unlawful combatant" in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, where he was held until 2005.Zaeef was crippled during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. After the Taliban took power in 1996, Zaeef was a minister of transportation until he became the Taliban's envoy to Pakistan. After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Zaeef was seen around the world when he held news conferences for the regime. While he condemned the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, he said that Osama bin Laden was not responsible and he would not be given up. He also reportedly consulted with Taliban leader Mullah Omar on ways to avert war.