Sayed Mansur Naderi
Sayed Mansoor Naderi سید منصور نادری | |
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Pencil drawing portrait of Sayed Mansoor Naderi | |
| Incumbent Sayed of Kayan Political Warlord | |
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| Born | Sayed Mansoor Naderi January 12, 1936 Kingdom of Afghanistan |
| Political party | National Solidarity Party of Afghanistan |
| Spouse(s) | Mastoora, Parween, and two more wives. |
| Children | Sayed Jafar Naderi Sadat Mansoor Naderi Farkhunda Zahra Naderi Sayed Jawid Naderi Sayed Atash Naderi Suraya Naderi Sayed Ershad Naderi |
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| Residence(s) | Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
| Religion | Ismaili |
| House | Sayed of Kayan |
| Ethnicity | Sadat |
Sayed Mansur Naderi is the incumbent Sayed of Kayan; leader of the Shi'a community of Afghanistan centred in Baghlan Province and also in other parts of Afghanistan. This community although Shia is smaller than the mainstream Twelver Shia community in Afghanistan.
Naderi served the Afghan monarchy, later the communist government and served as vice president during Majahiden government and in the 1980s, was expelled from his region by the Taliban, and returned to Baghlan following the fall of the Taliban. He was elected to the Wolesi Jirga (lower house of the Afghan Parliament) in 2005, and was the founder of the ismaili-based National Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (Paiwand Milli).
His son Sayed Jafar Naderi also achieved military advances in Baghlan during Soviet-Afghan War, becoming popular as Warlord of Kayan and later appointed as Governor of Baghlan Province post the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
His son Sayed Jafar Naderi was appointed security advisor to Afghan first vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum in 2014.
Sayed Mansoor's daughter Farkhunda Zahra Naderi is a well-known rights activist in Afghanistan and also serves as member of Afghan parliament elected in 2010 with the highest vote from Kabul province.
Sadat Mansoor Naderi, his another son nominated by Afghan president Ashraf Ghani as Urban Development Minister, assumed office on April 22, 2015. After that in 2020, he was appointed as Minister at Afghanistan's State Ministry for Peace.