Hazrat Ali (Afghan politician)

Ali
Born	Ali 1964 Kabul, Afghanistan
Residence	Jalalabad
Nationality	Afghan
Occupation	Warlord, Politician
Home town	Kashmond, Alingar district, Laghman Province.
Height	6 ft (183 cm)
Weight	90 kg (198 lb)
Political party	Northern Alliance

Hajji Ali is a Politician in Afghanistan. He previously served as a military commander for the Northern Alliance in eastern Afghanistan.

Ali was born in 1964 in Kabul to an ethnic Pashai family. He rose to prominence during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. As a commander for Hezb-e Islami Khalis he quickly became an important leader for the Pashai community. Hazrat Ali has also been described as an Afghan Army commander under the Soviet puppet regime. He fled Afghanistan to live in Mashad, Iran, where he is believed to have married an Iranian woman.

During the war against the Taliban, Ali is said to have been aligned with Ahmad Shah Massoud. Following the fall of the Taliban Ali joined with two other leaders in the Jalalabad-Tora Bora region, Abdul Qadir and Mohammed Zaman to set up the Eastern Shura, a local provisional government. They were early backers of the first post-Taliban President Hamid Karzai.

The Asia Times reports that, after the fall of the Taliban, Ali's troops executed hundreds of captured Arab prisoners with the complicity of U.S. special forces.

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