Qadamshah Shahim, former chief of staff of the Afghan National Army, has been appointed chairman of the Military Committee of the Afghan National Resistance Front.
DUSHANBE, April 15 - Sangar, Firdavsi Nizom. The order on his appointment was signed by the leader of the Resistance Front, Ahmad Masoud.
Sibghatullah Ahmadi, a spokesman for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, confirmed the news to the Sangar website, saying there were several candidates for the post, and Qadamshah Shahim was the final choice for the front and its leader.
“He is a trained and professional general who fought in both jihad and resistance and was considered an experienced and respected general in the Afghan army under the previous government,” said Sibgatullah Ahmadi.
General Qadamshah Shahim, Tajik, born in 1962, was born in the town of Tishkan, the center of the Kishm district, Badakhshan province. In 1982 he graduated from the Kishm Lyceum.
In the 1980s, during the jihad against the Soviet Union, he joined the Afghan National Army under the command of Bazmohammad Ahmadi, one of the commanders of the Jamiat Islami party, and during the reign of Ustad Rabbani in Kabul, he was appointed by the order of the Afghan Defense Minister Ahmad Shah Massoud was appointed commander of the regiment 82 - Karga.
He also received the rank of lieutenant general from Ahmad Shah Massoud in 1997 when the first resistance to the Taliban continued (1996-2001). He was considered a very vigilant and warlike commander Ahmad Shah Massoud.
20 years of pro-American governments were perhaps the most turbulent period of his life. In 2001, he was commander of the 37th Rifle Brigade and often dealt with foreign troops. In 2007 he was appointed commander of the 1st brigade, and in 2011 commander of the 111th corps in Kabul.
In July 2014, he was wounded in a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport and admitted to the Sardar Dawood Hospital.
His highest military rank was the chief of staff of the Afghan National Army, to which he was appointed in 2015 and resigned after the terrorist attack on the Shahin 209 military base, which killed more than 100 special forces of the Ministry of Defense.
In the same year, he was from the team of Dr. Abdullah and was appointed by Ashraf Ghani, the Ambassador of Afghanistan to Kazakhstan, and a year later, in this position, he was appointed the Ambassador of Afghanistan in Umman, which he still holds.
Qadamshah Shahim returned to the beginning of the great adventures of his life with the appointment of Badakhshi and Jamiati Tajik as head of the military committee of the Afghan National Resistance Front.
