Abdul Qadir (Afghan leader)
| Abdul Qadeer عبدالقدیر |
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| Vice President of Afghanistan | |
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In office October 2001 – July 6, 2002 |
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| President | Hamid Karzai |
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| Born | 1951 Jalalabad, Afghanistan |
| Died |
July 6, 2002 (aged 51) Kabul, Afghanistan |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Abdul Qadeer (عبدالقدیر, born c. 1951 in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, assassinated July 6, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan) was a Pashtun leader in Afghanistan. Qadir was a prominent member of the Northern Alliance and opposed the Taliban. He served as the head of Eastern Afghanistan Shura and later Vice President of Afghanistan and Minister of Public Works in the administration of Hamid Karzai from late 2001 until his assassination in 2002.
Qadeer belonged to the influential Pashtun Arsala family from the Afghan province of Nangarhar in Afghanistan. His brother was the anti-Soviet and Northern Alliance leader Abdul Haq, who was executed in late 2001 by the Taliban. From 1992 to 1996, before the Taliban gained power, Abdul Qadeer was the governor of Nangahar province.
Abdul Qadeer's was involved in Afghan politics even before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Qadeer fought against them as a key resistance commander with the Hezb-e Islami Khalis faction. After the Soviet retreat in 1989 and the fall of the Afghan communist regime in 1992, Qadeer was appointed governor of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan.
On September 27, 1996, the Taliban took power in Kabul with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia. Qadeer had to flee from Nangarhar and entered neighbouring Pakistan. Because of his opposition to the Taliban, however, he soon faced trouble with the authorities in Pakistan. Qadir then left for Germany. In the following years he shuttled between Germany and Dubai where he had started a trading business.
In 1999, Qadeer returned to Afghanistan to serve their people & he made united Afghanistan by unity to all people of Afghanistan, which was left as the only resistance force against the Taliban regime and its allies. The United Front included forces and leaders from different political backgrounds as well as from all Afghan ethnicities including Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazaras or Turkmens. Qadeer came to lead the United Front's Eastern Shura and ensured the alliance's influence in the largely Pashtun east of Afghanistan.
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