Amrullah Saleh

Amrullah Saleh
امرالله صالح
Amrullah Saleh speaking at an international conference in Berlin
Director of National Directorate of Security
In office February 2004 – June 2010
Preceded by	Muhammad Arif Sarwari
Succeeded by	Ibrahim Spinzada
Personal details
Born	1971 (Age 45) Panjshir Province, Afghanistan
Political party	Green Trend
Religion	Islam
Awards	Cleary University (honorary Doctorate Degree in Political Science)

Amrullah Saleh (Persian: امرالله صالح‎‎; born 1971) is a politician in Afghanistan who served as head of the National Directorate of Security from 2004 until his resignation in 2010. Prior to that he was a member of Ahmad Shah Massoud's Northern Alliance.

In 1997, Saleh was appointed by mujahideen leader Massoud to serve as Northern Alliance's liaison office inside the Afghan Embassy in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, handling contacts to international non-governmental (humanitarian) organizations and intelligence agencies. In late 2010, Saleh created a pro-democracy and anti-Taliban movement called Basej-e Milli (National Mobilization) and Green Trend.

In March 2017, he was appointed as State Minister for Security Reforms by President Ashraf Ghani.

Saleh was born in 1971 in the Panjshir Province of Afghanistan. He belongs to the Tajik group.

In 1990, in order to avoid being conscripted into the Soviet-backed Afghan army, Saleh joined the opposition mujahideen forces. He received military training in neighboring Pakistan and fought under mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud.

In the late 1990s, Saleh was a member of the Northern Alliance (also known as the United Front) and was fighting against the Taliban expansion. In 1997, Saleh was appointed by Massoud to lead the United Front's international liaison office at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, where he served as a coordinator for non-governmental (humanitarian) organizations and as a liaison partner for foreign intelligence agencies.

After the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, Saleh participated in leading intelligence operations of the United Front on the ground during the toppling of the Taliban regime.