Mohammed Daud Daud

Mohammad Daud Daud (Persian: محمد داوود داوود) General Mohammad Daud Daud (born in January 1969 in Farkhar district, Takhar province and died on May 28, 2011 in Taloqan city, Takhar province) پیرو راستین مسعود , one of the Tajik generals (Tajik, one of Afghanistan's ethnic groups), was 41 years old when he was killed. and was the general commander of the police in the north and northeast of Afghanistan.

He was one of the well-known anti-Taliban and Al-Qaeda figures and the creator of the local police پولیس محلی in Afghanistan.

Daud Daud completed his school at Abu Osman Taloqani High School and had a bachelor's degree in political science, and he was still enrolled in a foreign university to get a master's degree before his death.[5]

In the 1980, he joined the forces of Com. Seyyed Hossein known as (Doctor Hossein), one of the prominent commanders of the Islamic Jamiat of Afghanistan. After the assassination of Commander Seyyed Hossein by Golbuddin Hekmatyar, Commander Daud joined Ahmad Shah Massoud and was appointed first as his bodyguard and then as his special assistant

After the withdrawal of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, and in internal conflicts, a new movement called the Taliban emerged in Kandahar and advanced to take the government of Burhanuddin Rabbani and the fall of Afghanistan. Ahmad Shah Massoud decided to negotiate and meet with them when they arrived in the Maidan Shahr center of Wardak province, located south of Kabul, and he went to meet them with some of his companions (Daud Daud, Asadullah Khalid, Abdul Rahim Maali) and He listened to their demands. But he (Massoud Minister of Defense of the Islamic GOV) soon realized that it was not possible to negotiate with this group and returned. The leadership of the Islamic government, led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, was determined to take the war out of Kabul so that the citizens of Kabul, who were severely damaged during the civil war, would no longer suffer.

Commander Massoud had ordered his trusted person Daud to keep his forces away from the capital and take command of the central forces in the northeast.

When the Taliban took over the government in Afghanistan, he led his forces against the Taliban and until December 2001, when the Taliban were completely defeated, he remained in his position (commander of the central forces and governor of Takhar province) and fought against them;

He successfully cleared Takhar and Kundoz provinces from Taliban And Al-Qayeda

After the defeat of the first Taliban regime, Major General Daud Daud, who was the governor of Takhar province in the Islamic State of Afghanistan, after the establishment of the interim government led by Hamid Karzai, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and appointed as the commander of the army corps in the northeast.

In 2004, Gen. Daud was appointed as Deputy Counter-Narcotics in the Ministry of Interior/Afghanistan. During his mission, drugs were controlled in many parts of Afghanistan,His campaign against opium poppy cultivation was successful in several provinces, including Logar, Ghazni, Wardak, Paktia, Helmand, Urozgan Paktika and Badakhshan. But because of his financial and public support to Dr. Abdullah Abdullah in the presidential election, Hamid Karzai threatened to expel him

After Hamid Karzai won again in the elections, he was appointed as the commander of the North and Northeast Police Zone in 2010.

He was one of the staunch anti-Taliban commanders. In the first days of his work, he presented the plan for the establishment of the local police as an adviser to Gen. Besmillah Mohammadi, the then interior minister of Afghanistan, a plan that was very useful for the security of the north.

He was more in the battlefield and fighting terrorism than sitting in the office, because of this, the insecurity in the north was reduced by 80%, Hamid Karzai, whose first deputy was Marshal Fahim, accused him of genocide against the Pashtuns (from ethnic groups).

On May 28, 2011, he was wounded in the leg by the explosion of a mine planted in the sofa of Takhar governor's office. After asking for help, he was killed by unknown person with thirteen bullets.

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan took responsibility for this attack, but Takhar's influentials and officials hold Lt.General Zalmai Weesa, the commander national army in the north, and Abdul Jaber Taqwa, the governor of Takhar, responsible for his death.

Burhanuddin Rabbani, the former president, and Abdullah Abdullah, head of the National Coalition, called on the government to conduct an immediate investigation into the recent killings.

Before General Daud Daud, Khan Mohammad Mujahid, the police commander of Kandahar (in the south of Afghanistan) and Abdul Rahman Seyedkheli, the police commander of Kunduz (in the northeast) were also killed by suicide attacks. Provided by Wikipedia