:Abdullah Laghmani

{{short description|Former Afghan deputy chief of security}}

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| name = Abdullah Laghmani

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| office = Deputy Director of the National Directorate of Security

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| term_end = 2 September 2009

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| president = Hamid Karzai

| birth_date = ~1960s

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| death_date = 2 September 2009

| death_place = Mihtarlam, Laghman Province, Afghanistan

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Abdullah Laghmani (1960s{{cite news |first=Stephen Farrell |author=Rahimi, Sangar |title=Deputy Chief of Intelligence Is Slain in Afghanistan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/world/asia/03afghan.html |work=The New York Times |date=2009-09-02 |access-date=2009-09-02 |quote=Mr. Laghmani, who was in his 40s, served...}} –2 September 2009) was Deputy Chief of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) in Afghanistan, and a prominent ally of President Hamid Karzai. He first served as an intelligence officer for the Northern Alliance during Taliban rule.{{cite news |first=M. K. |last=Bhadrakumar |title=Spooks spill blood in the Hindu Kush |url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KI04Df05.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090906121909/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KI04Df05.html |url-status=unfit |archive-date=2009-09-06 |publisher=Asia Times |date=2009-09-04 |access-date=2009-09-04}} After the formation of Karzai administration in late 2001, Laghmani served as the intelligence chief of Kandahar province{{cite news |title=Taliban suspects arrested |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/dec/15/afghanistan |agency=Associated Press |work=The Guardian |date=2004-12-15 |access-date=2009-09-02}} before moving up as deputy chief. Laghmani was killed in a Taliban suicide bomb attack in Mehtar Lam, Laghman Province.

An ethnic Tajik,{{cite news |title=Taliban Suicide Strike Kills Afghan Deputy Spy Chief |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112488245&ft=1&f=1004 |agency=Associated Press |publisher=NPR |date=2009-09-02 |access-date=2009-09-02}} he was particularly knowledgeable about the Taliban and the movement's mentors in Pakistan. He and his agents helped determine a possible link between the bombers who attacked the Indian Embassy in Kabul in July 2008 and the Pakistani intelligence service (ISI) in Peshawar.