Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai is an Afghan politician who served as President of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021, ending his term after the government collapsed in 2021.
Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghanistan’s first and only astronaut, has died of cancer in Stuttgart, Germany, on June 21. Born in Ghazni, he flew on the Mir space station in 1988 as part of a Soviet-led mission and later lived in exile. His legacy is marked by a historic spaceflight that connected Afghanistan with the wider cosmos.