Mullah Salam

Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi (born 1958, Naw Bahar District, Zabul Province) is a former Mujahideen "freedom fighter" and Taliban military commander who renounced his allegiance to run for the Parliament of Afghanistan in 2005, and for the Presidency in 2009. The Asia Times described him as one of the former Taliban who: "...act as the Taliban's political wing in Kabul." Rocketi is an ethnic Pashtun from Zabul Province in Afghanistan. Son of Haji Masur, he has some religious education until he fled to Pakistan in 1978.

During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the eighties, Rocketi earned his surname fighting with rocket-propelled grenades against Soviet helicopters and tanks.

In 1995, he joined the Taliban and was appointed the governor of Maidan Wardak Province. A member of the Abdul Rasul Sayyaf's Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan, his residence was raided by Pakistani forces who uncovered a cache of Stinger missiles, and arrested his brother. Rocketi retaliated, kidnapping the deputy commissioner of Ziarat, Atta Mohammad, and several Pakistani militiamen. In retaliation, he took 10 Pakistani hostages, including the deputy commissioner of Ziarat and 2 Chinese engineers. He demanded that his brother to be freed from Pakistani prison and the return of his Stinger missiles, but was forced to give up when the Paksitani government threaten to close Sayyaf's offices in Pakistan.

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