Bismillah Khan Mohammadi

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Interior Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi in January 2012
Bismillah Khan Mohammadi as Chief of Staff in December 2009

Bismillah Khan Mohammadi , also known as Bismillah Khan (* 1961 ), is an Afghan general and politician.

Career

Before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he was a member of the Parcham faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan . Before the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Khan was deputy defense minister of the Northern Alliance , first under Ahmad Shah Massoud and later Mohammed Fahim . After Kabul was under the control of the Northern Alliance, he was used as a commander of the 2,000-strong Kabul police forces, and he also became a member of the Kabul Security Commission. Bismillah Khan is an ethnic Tajike and comes from the Panjshir Valley .

From March 8, 2002 to January 6, 2010 he was Chief of Staff of the Afghan National Army (ANA). On June 26, 2010, Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed him Minister of the Interior after the resignation of Mohammad Hanif Atmar .

After a vote of confidence that had been lost in the Afghan parliament, Bismillah Khan Mohammadi and Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak announced their resignation from the ministerial office in early August 2012.

On September 15, 2012, Bismillah Khan Mohammadi took over the post of Minister of Defense, which he held until May 24, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Bismillah Khan Mohammadi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview: General Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, Chief of General Staff, Afghan National Army Jane's Defense News. January 18, 2008
  2. ^ Government crisis : Afghanistan's interior and defense ministers resign , Zeit Online , August 2012
personal data
SURNAME Khan Mohammadi, Bismillah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Khan, Bismillah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan National Army Chief of Staff, Minister of the Interior
DATE OF BIRTH 1961