Qari Ahmadullah

Politician, Deceased Person

– 2001

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Who was Qari Ahmadullah?

Qari Ahmadullah was an Afghan politician and the Taliban's first interior minister in 1996.

He was also responsible for bribing anti-Taliban commanders to desert the ranks of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan opposition. Ahmadullah also commanded troops fighting on frontlines in the north of the country against the Northern Alliance.

According to the testimony of Abdul Haq Wasiq, before his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, Ahmadullah was the Minister of Intelligence, and the Governor of Takhar Province. Abdul Haq described Ahmadullah as an uneducated man.

He was killed in the opening days of 2002, in the American airstrike against Mullah Taha's house in Zadran.

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Dec 27, 2001

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on July 23, 2013

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