Mohammad Muslim Hayat, known as "Commander Muslim", one of the famous Mujahideen of Afghanistan, has passed away.
Kabul, April 17 - Sangar, Farzam Kazemi. He was considered one of the special persons of the legendary Ahmad Shah Massoud, the national hero of Afghanistan. He spent his youth in the strongholds of jihad and resistance and passed away with a good name and clean hands.
One of Commander Muslim's friends told Sanger that the deceased had been battling heart failure for the past month which ended his life.
“The commander died on Sunday evening at about 8 o’clock Kabul time in a hospital in London, the capital of Great Britain,” he said.
Commander Muslim was born in 1963 in Jangalak, Bazarak district, Panjshir province. He was one of Ahmad Shah Massoud's paternal relatives. In 1980, after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and completed his 12th grade in Kabul, he went to Panjshir and joined the Mujahideen of Ahmad Shah Massoud.
Soon after undergoing military training and showing courage, intelligence, and personal ability, he was appointed commander of the Malaspa camp. He later assumed command of the central forces of Massoud's troops.
His former comrades told Sangar that Commander Muslim later became one of Ahmad Shah Massoud's special persons. During the Jihad against the Soviet Union, he was responsible for special operations. After the restoration of the Islamic State under Burhanuddin Rabbani, he was responsible for the security of foreign visitors and Ahmad Shah Massoud himself, the Afghan defense minister.
Commander Muslim was responsible for the security of the historic negotiations between the Plenipotentiary of the GRU of the USSR, Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly Tkachev, and Masud, after which a ceasefire of 1983 was declared between the Mujahideen and the Soviet Army.
In 1996, he organized Massoud's historic but dangerous meeting with the Taliban in Maidan Wardak province and personally accompanied the commander. The meeting took place in the territory controlled by the Taliban and Massoud participated in it with Commander Muslim and a couple of other bodyguards. At this meeting, Ahmadshah Masoud met face-to-face with the leaders and commanders of the Taliban. Later, the Taliban were very sorry that they let him go because Massoud turned into a main headache for them.
During the period of the First Resistance (1996-2001), Commander Muslim was responsible for the foreign intelligence of the Resistance Front and regulated all relations of the front with the special services of foreign states. He accompanied Massoud on his trip to Iran in 1998.
After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, he was appointed military attaché at the Afghan embassy in London, and after completing his mission, he worked for a British company working with Central Asian countries as a security consultant.
In the mourning texts of his friends, it is often mentioned that he was not involved in the corruption and betrayals of the 20 years of the republic time compared to other followers of Massoud, and joined his commander in heaven with his head up and a pure conscience.
