Ahmad Zia Massoud (Born
May 1,
1956) is the current vice-president of
Afghanistan in the administration of President
Hamid Karzai. He is the younger brother of
Ahmed Shah Massoud.
He was born in
Muqur, in the province of
Ghazni. He attended Esteqlal College, the French college in
Kabul, for his primary and secondary studies, and then entered the Polytechnical School in Kabul. However, he left school in his third year, in 1978, caught up in the tumultuous events in the country, and joined the
mujahideen with his brother Ahmad Shah, in the
Panjsher Valley north of Kabul.
From
1978 to
1981, Ahmad Zia directed Qarargah of Paryan in Haut-Panjsher, and directed resistance in the entire valley. Between 1981 and April of
1992, his commander (Ahmed Shah Massoud) named him special representative of his Djamiat-e-Islami party to
Peshawar,
Pakistan, where the seven principal parties of the Afghan resistance met. Also during this period he maintained and increased contacts with political leaders of all the Afghan resistance movement, including diplomatic circles and international organizations; in addition, he traveled abroad to plead the case of the mujahideen.
After the fall of the Soviet-backed communist regime,
Burhanuddin Rabbani, his father-in-law, chose him to be the advisor and special representative of the Islamic State of Afghanistan. In December
2001, President Karzai named him ambassador to the Russian Federation under
Vladimir Putin; in February 2004 his functions were extended to include the Republic of
Armenia, and then in July of that year,
Georgia,
Belarus, and
Moldavia as well.
On July 26, 2004, Karzai announced that he had chosen Ahmad Zia as his running mate in the October 9, 2004 presidential elections.
Ahmad Zia Massoud is married and has four children: three girls and a boy.
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Hamid Karzai (Persian and Pashto: حامد کرزي) (b. December 24, 1957) is the current President of Afghanistan, since December 7, 2004. He became the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime.
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Ahmad Shah Massoud (Persian: احمد شاه مسعود) (c. September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001) was an ethnic Tajik from Afghanistan and a Kabul University engineering
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