Sayed Mansur Naderi

Portrait of Sayed Mansur Naderi

Sayed Mansur Naderi is the leader of Afghanistan's Ismaili Shi'a Muslim community, holding the traditional position of Sayed of Kayan based in Baghlan Province. He is a member of the parliament of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan since 2005. His son Sayed Jafar Naderi also achieved note as a leader in Baghlan, becoming a warlord and later governor of Baghlan. During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan Sayed Jafar Naderi became the a member of parliament for Baghlan province, in charge of a 12,000 man private army. Many of his adherents were forced to flee to Pakistan as refugees during the war, but many returned in the year 2000.^{[citation needed]}

Baghlan's Ismaili community, unlike many in the world, does not defer to the nominal leader of Ismailis worldwide, the Agha Khan, leading Naderi to be described as a "renegade local Ismaili leader".^[1]

Taliban era

During the 1990s Taliban period, Sayed Mansoor Nader and his son Jafar Naderi took refuge in Bamiyan Province, a heavily Shi'a (though non-Ismaili) area, while sending other family members to France.^[2] Mansoor apparently later took refuge in Uzbekistan, as he returned from there to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, in 2002.^[3]

References

1. ^ Hindokosh, May 2003 at UNHCR.org
2. ^ Khan 6 Sep 1998
3. ^ Samander 24 Jan 2003

Sources

• United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Afghanistan: Information on Activities of Ismailis Loyal to Sayed Kayan, 7 July 2004, AFG04002.REF, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/414ede3c4.html (accessed 28 March 2010)

External links

• Sayed Kayan official site

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Name	Naderi, Sayed Mansur
Alternative names	sayed kayan
Short description	Renegade
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