Nur ul-Haq Ulumi [SEP] position held
Nur ul-Haq Ulumi
Nur ul-Haq Ulumi (born 15 August 1941) is an Afghan politician, who served as a Member of the House of the People from 2005 to 2010 representing Kandahar. He is currently the leader of the National United Party of Afghanistan, a small left-wing and secular party in Afghanistan that is a member of the National Coalition of Afghanistan. Ulumi previously served in the Afghan Army as a member of the Parcham faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. during the Afghan
, amid accusations of electoral fraud and vote rigging.
Having supported Abdullah Abdullah in the 2014 Afghan presidential election, party leader Nur ul-Haq Ulumi was nominated by Abdullah to be Minister of Interior in the unity government of Ashraf Ghani in January 2015. A ban was however imposed by the Parliament on cabinet minister appointments with dual citizenship. After renouncing his dual citizenship Ulumi was nominated again, and was confirmed as Interior Minister on the 27 January 2015. Since according to the laws of Afghanistan, It's illegal for ministers