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against the Soviet Union (1979–1989) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Resistance_against_the_Soviet_Union_(1979–1989)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Fall_of_the_Afghan_communist_regime_(1992)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Fall_of_the_Afghan_communist_regime_(1992)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.3 Fall of the Afghan communist regime (1992) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Fall_of_the_Afghan_communist_regime_(1992)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-War_in_Afghanistan_(1992–2001)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#War_in_Afghanistan_(1992–2001)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 War in Afghanistan (1992–2001) </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-War_in_Afghanistan_(1992–2001)-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle War in Afghanistan (1992–2001) subsection </button> <ul 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href="#Escalating_war_over_Kabul_(1992)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.2 Escalating war over Kabul (1992) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Escalating_war_over_Kabul_(1992)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Afshar_operation_(February_1993)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Afshar_operation_(February_1993)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.3 Afshar operation (February 1993) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Afshar_operation_(February_1993)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_war_over_Kabul_(March–December_1993)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_war_over_Kabul_(March–December_1993)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.4 Further war over Kabul (March–December 1993) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_war_over_Kabul_(March–December_1993)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-War_in_Kabul,_Taliban_arise_in_the_south_(1994)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#War_in_Kabul,_Taliban_arise_in_the_south_(1994)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.5 War in Kabul, Taliban arise in the south (1994) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-War_in_Kabul,_Taliban_arise_in_the_south_(1994)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Taliban_siege_of_Kabul_(1995–1996)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Taliban_siege_of_Kabul_(1995–1996)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.6 Taliban siege of Kabul (1995–1996) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Taliban_siege_of_Kabul_(1995–1996)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Resistance_against_the_Taliban_(1996–2001)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Resistance_against_the_Taliban_(1996–2001)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2 Resistance against the Taliban (1996–2001) </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Resistance_against_the_Taliban_(1996–2001)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-United_Front_against_the_Taliban" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_Front_against_the_Taliban"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2.1 United Front against the Taliban </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_Front_against_the_Taliban-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cross-factional_negotiations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cross-factional_negotiations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2.2 Cross-factional negotiations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cross-factional_negotiations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_areas_of_Massoud" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_areas_of_Massoud"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2.3 The areas of Massoud </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_areas_of_Massoud-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-International_relations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#International_relations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2.4 International relations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-International_relations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Assassination" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Assassination"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Assassination </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Assassination-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Assassination subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Assassination-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Connection_to_September_11,_2001" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Connection_to_September_11,_2001"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Connection to September 11, 2001 </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Connection_to_September_11,_2001-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Investigative_commission" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Investigative_commission"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Investigative commission </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Investigative_commission-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legacy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legacy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Legacy </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Legacy-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Legacy subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Legacy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-National_Hero_of_Afghanistan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#National_Hero_of_Afghanistan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1 National Hero of Afghanistan </div> </a> <ul id="toc-National_Hero_of_Afghanistan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lion_of_Panjshir" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lion_of_Panjshir"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 Lion of Panjshir </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lion_of_Panjshir-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Honors_outside_Afghanistan" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Honors_outside_Afghanistan"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3 Honors outside Afghanistan </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Honors_outside_Afghanistan-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Views_on_Pakistan_and_potential_al-Qaeda_attacks" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Views_on_Pakistan_and_potential_al-Qaeda_attacks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.4 Views on Pakistan and potential al-Qaeda attacks </div> 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class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 External links </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-External_links-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle External links subsection </button> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Interviews" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Interviews"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12.1 Interviews </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Interviews-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Obituaries_and_articles" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Obituaries_and_articles"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12.2 Obituaries and articles </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Obituaries_and_articles-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Documentaries/Panegyrics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Documentaries/Panegyrics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12.3 Documentaries/Panegyrics </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Documentaries/Panegyrics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" 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شاه مسعود" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Shah Massoud – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Ahmad Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C6%8Fhm%C9%99d_%C5%9Eah_M%C9%99sud" title="Əhməd Şah Məsud – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Əhməd Şah Məsud" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF" title="احمد شاه مسعود – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="احمد شاه مسعود" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A6_%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A6" title="আহমদ শাহ মাসউদ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="আহমদ শাহ মাসউদ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B4" title="Ахмад Шах Масуд – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Ахмад Шах Масуд" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Shah Massoud – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Ahmad Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bikol Central</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B4" title="Ахмад Шах Масуд – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Ахмад Шах Масуд" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Shah Massoud – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Ahmad Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massud" title="Ahmad Shah Massud – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ahmad Shah Massud" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B4" title="Ахмад Шах Массуд – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Ахмад Шах Массуд" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target">Чӑвашла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_%C5%A0%C3%A1h_Mas%C3%BAd" title="Ahmad Šáh Masúd – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Ahmad Šáh Masúd" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Shah Massoud – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Ahmad Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Shah Massoud – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Ahmad Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Schah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Schah Massoud – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ahmad Schah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E1%B8%A9mad_Sh%C4%81h_Mas%E2%80%98%C5%ABd" title="Aḩmad Shāh Mas‘ūd – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Aḩmad Shāh Mas‘ūd" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Masud" title="Ahmad Shah Masud – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ahmad Shah Masud" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_%C5%9Cah_Masud" title="Ahmad Ŝah Masud – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ahmad Ŝah Masud" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Shah Massoud – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ahmad Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF" title="احمد شاه مسعود – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="احمد شاه مسعود" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Chah_Massoud" title="Ahmed Chah Massoud – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ahmed Chah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Shah Massoud – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Ahmad Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%ED%9D%90%EB%A7%88%EB%93%9C_%EC%83%A4_%EB%A7%88%EC%8A%A4%EC%9A%B0%EB%93%9C" title="아흐마드 샤 마스우드 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="아흐마드 샤 마스우드" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%B0%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%A4_%D5%87%D5%A1%D5%B0_%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A4" title="Ահմադ Շահ Մասուդ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ահմադ Շահ Մասուդ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%A6" title="अहमद शाह मसूद – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="अहमद शाह मसूद" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_%C5%A0ah_Masud" title="Ahmad Šah Masud – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Ahmad Šah Masud" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmed Shah Massoud – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Ahmed Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E1%B8%A5mad_Sh%C4%81h_Mas%CA%BF%C5%ABd" title="Aḥmad Shāh Masʿūd – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Aḥmad Shāh Masʿūd" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%93_%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%94_%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%93" title="אחמד שאה מסעוד – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אחמד שאה מסעוד" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%B0%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%93_%E1%83%A8%E1%83%90%E1%83%B0_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A3%E1%83%93%E1%83%98" title="აჰმად შაჰ მასუდი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="აჰმად შაჰ მასუდი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D2%BB_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D2%B1%D1%82" title="Ахмад Шаһ Масұт – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Ахмад Шаһ Масұт" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmedus_Sachus_Mas%27%C5%ABd" title="Ahmedus Sachus Mas'ūd – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Ahmedus Sachus Mas'ūd" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achmadas_%C5%A0achas_Masudas" title="Achmadas Šachas Masudas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Achmadas Šachas Masudas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%B9%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%BE_%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D" title="അഹ്മദ് ഷാ മസൂദ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="അഹ്മദ് ഷാ മസൂദ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A6_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%A6" title="अहमद शाह मसूद – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="अहमद शाह मसूद" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target">मराठी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF" title="احمد شاه مسعود – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="احمد شاه مسعود" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF" title="احمد شاه مسعود – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="احمد شاه مسعود" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target">مازِرونی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B4" title="Ахмад Шах Массуд – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Ахмад Шах Массуд" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Монгол</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achmed_Sjah_Massoed" title="Achmed Sjah Massoed – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Achmed Sjah Massoed" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%95%E3%83%9E%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89" title="アフマド・シャー・マスード – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="アフマド・シャー・マスード" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmed Shah Massoud – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Ahmed Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%81_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF" title="احمد شاہ مسعود – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="احمد شاہ مسعود" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF" title="احمد شاه مسعود – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="احمد شاه مسعود" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target">پښتو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Szah_Masud" title="Ahmad Szah Masud – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Ahmad Szah Masud" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Shah Massoud – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Ahmad Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Shah Massoud – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Ahmad Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B4" title="Ахмад Шах Масуд – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Ахмад Шах Масуд" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-skr mw-list-item"><a href="https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%81_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF" title="احمد شاہ مسعود – Saraiki" lang="skr" hreflang="skr" data-title="احمد شاہ مسعود" data-language-autonym="سرائیکی" data-language-local-name="Saraiki" class="interlanguage-link-target">سرائیکی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Shah Massoud – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Ahmad Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Shah Massoud – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Ahmad Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_%C5%A0%C3%A1h_Mas%C3%BAd" title="Ahmad Šáh Masúd – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Ahmad Šáh Masúd" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%95%D8%AD%D9%85%DB%95%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7_%D9%85%DB%95%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D9%88%D8%AF" title="ئەحمەد شا مەسعوود – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ئەحمەد شا مەسعوود" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">کوردی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B4" title="Ахмад Шах Масуд – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Ахмад Шах Масуд" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad-%C5%A1ah_Masud" title="Ahmad-šah Masud – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Ahmad-šah Masud" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_%C5%A0ah_Masud" title="Ahmad Šah Masud – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Ahmad Šah Masud" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Shah Massoud – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Ahmad Shah Massoud" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%81_%E0%AE%B7%E0%AE%BE_%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D" title="அகமது ஷா மசூத் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="அகமது ஷா மசூத்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%94_%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AB%E0%B9%8C_%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%94" title="อาหมัด ชาห์ มาซูด – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="อาหมัด ชาห์ มาซูด" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D2%B3%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%88%D0%BE%D2%B3%D0%B8_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8A%D1%83%D0%B4" title="Аҳмадшоҳи Масъуд – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Аҳмадшоҳи Масъуд" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target">Тоҷикӣ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_%C5%9Eah_Mesud" title="Ahmed Şah Mesud – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Ahmed Şah Mesud" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B4" title="Ахмад Шах Масуд – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Ахмад Шах Масуд" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%81_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF" title="احمد شاہ مسعود – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="احمد شاہ مسعود" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target">اردو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Ahmad Shah Massoud – Vietnamese" 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normal;">احمد شاه مسعود</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Ahmad_Shah_Masoud.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Ahmad_Shah_Masoud.jpg/220px-Ahmad_Shah_Masoud.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="342" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Ahmad_Shah_Masoud.jpg/330px-Ahmad_Shah_Masoud.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Ahmad_Shah_Masoud.jpg/440px-Ahmad_Shah_Masoud.jpg 2x" data-file-width="515" data-file-height="800" /></a><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Massoud as a Mujahideen, wearing his signature <a href="/wiki/Pakol" title="Pakol">Pakol</a> hat</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defense_(Afghanistan)" title="Ministry of Defense (Afghanistan)">Minister of Defense</a> of <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic State of Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office April 28, 1992 – September 9, 2001<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div>Acting from April 28, 1992 to June 28, 1992<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div>In opposition to the Taliban from September 27, 1996</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Burhanuddin_Rabbani" title="Burhanuddin Rabbani">Burhanuddin Rabbani</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Aslam_Watanjar" title="Mohammad Aslam Watanjar">Mohammad Aslam Watanjar</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Fahim" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Fahim">Mohammed Fahim</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">(1953-09-02)September 2, 1953[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <a href="/wiki/Bazarak,_Panjshir" class="mw-redirect" title="Bazarak, Panjshir">Bazarak</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Afghanistan" title="Kingdom of Afghanistan">Kingdom of Afghanistan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">September 9, 2001(2001-09-09) (aged 48) <a href="/wiki/Takhar_Province" title="Takhar Province">Takhar Province</a>, Afghanistan<a href="#cite_note-3">[a]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Manner of death</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud">Assassination</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jamiat-e_Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamiat-e Islami">Jamiat-e Islami</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Sediqa Massoud</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">6, including <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Massoud" title="Ahmad Massoud">Ahmad</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data">National Hero of Afghanistan <a href="/wiki/File:Order_Ismoili_Somoni_Rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Order_Ismoili_Somoni_Rib.png/23px-Order_Ismoili_Somoni_Rib.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="7" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Order_Ismoili_Somoni_Rib.png/35px-Order_Ismoili_Somoni_Rib.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Order_Ismoili_Somoni_Rib.png/46px-Order_Ismoili_Somoni_Rib.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="30" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Ismoili_Somoni" title="Order of Ismoili Somoni">Order of Ismoili Somoni</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nickname</th><td class="infobox-data">"Lion of Panjshir" (<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: شیر پنجشیر)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Military service</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branch/service</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Jamiat-e_Islami.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jamiat-e_Islami.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Jamiat-e_Islami.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jamiat-e_Islami.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Jamiat-e_Islami.svg/45px-Flag_of_Jamiat-e_Islami.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /> <a href="/wiki/Jamiat-e_Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamiat-e Islami">Jamiat-e Islami</a> / <a href="/wiki/Shura-e_Nazar" title="Shura-e Nazar">Shura-e Nazar</a><a href="#cite_note-4">[b]</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281992%E2%80%932001%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281992%E2%80%932001%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281992%E2%80%932001%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281992%E2%80%932001%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281992%E2%80%932001%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281992%E2%80%932001%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="300" /> <a href="/wiki/Military_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of Afghanistan">Afghan Armed Forces</a> <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281992%E2%80%932001%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281992%E2%80%932001%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281992%E2%80%932001%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281992%E2%80%932001%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281992%E2%80%932001%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_Afghanistan_%281992%E2%80%932001%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="300" /> <a href="/wiki/Northern_Alliance" title="Northern Alliance">United Islamic Front</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1975–2001</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/General" class="mw-redirect" title="General">General</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commands</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jamiat-e_Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamiat-e Islami">Mujahideen</a> commander during the <a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War" title="Soviet–Afghan War">Soviet–Afghan War</a> Commander of the <a href="/wiki/United_Islamic_Front_for_the_Salvation_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan">United Islamic Front</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Battles/wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview ul{padding:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .treeview li{padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li{background:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Treeview-grey-line.png")no-repeat 0 -2981px;padding-left:21px;text-indent:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li:last-child{background-position:0 -5971px}.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>.mw-empty-elt:first-child+.emptyline,.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>li:first-child{background-position:0 9px}</style><div class="treeview"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1975_Panjshir_Valley_uprising" title="1975 Panjshir Valley uprising">1975 Panjshir Valley uprising</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[3]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War" title="Soviet–Afghan War">Soviet–Afghan War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Panjshir_offensives_(Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War)" title="Panjshir offensives (Soviet–Afghan War)">Panjshir offensives</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Panjshir_Front" title="Panjshir Front">Panjshir Front</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=First_Panjshir_Offensive&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="First Panjshir Offensive (page does not exist)">First Panjshir Offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Second_Panjshir_Offensive&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Second Panjshir Offensive (page does not exist)">Second Panjshir Offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Arrow" title="Operation Arrow">Operation Arrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marmoul_offensives" title="Marmoul offensives">Marmoul offensives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan" title="Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan">Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Typhoon_(Panjshir)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Operation Typhoon (Panjshir) (page does not exist)">Operation Typhoon (Panjshir)</a> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%C2%AB%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%84%D1%83%D0%BD%C2%BB_(1989)" class="extiw" title="ru:Операция «Тайфун» (1989)">ru</a>]</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Civil_War_(1989-1992)" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan Civil War (1989-1992)">First Afghan Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Civil_War_(1992%E2%80%931996)" title="Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)">Second Afghan Civil War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afshar_Operation" title="Afshar Operation">Afshar Operation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Civil_War_(1996%E2%80%932001)" title="Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)">Third Afghan Civil War</a> <a href="/wiki/Assassination" title="Assassination">X</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> Ahmad Shah Massoud (<a href="/wiki/Dari" title="Dari">Dari</a>: <span class="Nastaliq" dir="rtl" title="Nastaliq" style="font-family: 'Jameel Noori Nastaleeq', 'Urdu Typesetting', 'Noto Nastaliq Urdu', 'Noto Nastaliq Urdu Draft', 'Hussaini Nastaleeq', 'AlQalam Taj Nastaleeq', IranNastaliq, 'Awami Nastaliq', 'Awami Nastaliq Beta3', 'Awami Nastaliq Beta2', 'Awami Nastaliq Beta1', 'Nafees Nastaleeq', 'Nafees Nastaleeq v1.01', 'Pak Nastaleeq', 'PDMS_Jauhar', 'Alvi Lahori Nastaleeq'; font-size: 110%; font-style: normal;">احمد شاه مسعود, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style>Persian pronunciation: <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Persian" title="Help:IPA/Persian">[ʔæhmæd ʃɒːh mæsʔuːd]</a>; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician.<a href="#cite_note-6">[4]</a> He was a <a href="/wiki/Guerrilla" class="mw-redirect" title="Guerrilla">guerrilla</a> commander during the resistance against the Soviet occupation during the <a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War" title="Soviet–Afghan War">Soviet–Afghan War</a> from 1979 to 1989. In the 1990s, he led the government's military wing against rival militia, and actively fought against the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>, from the time the regime rose to power in 1996,<a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-7">[5]</a> and until his assassination in 2001. Massoud came from an ethnic <a href="/wiki/Tajik_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Tajik people">Tajik</a> of <a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni</a> <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslim</a> background in the <a href="/wiki/Panjshir_Valley" title="Panjshir Valley">Panjshir Valley</a> in Northern Afghanistan. He began studying engineering at <a href="/wiki/Polytechnical_University_of_Kabul" class="mw-redirect" title="Polytechnical University of Kabul">Polytechnical University of Kabul</a> in the 1970s, where he became involved with religious anti-<a href="/wiki/Communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist">communist</a> movements around <a href="/wiki/Burhanuddin_Rabbani" title="Burhanuddin Rabbani">Burhanuddin Rabbani</a>, a leading <a href="/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamist</a>. He participated in a failed uprising against <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Daoud_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Daoud Khan">Mohammed Daoud Khan</a>'s government.<a href="#cite_note-8">[6]</a> He later joined Rabbani's <a href="/wiki/Jamiat-e_Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamiat-e Islami">Jamiat-e Islami</a> party. During the Soviet–Afghan War, his role as an insurgent leader of the <a href="/wiki/Afghan_mujahideen" title="Afghan mujahideen">Afghan mujahideen</a> earned him the nickname "Lion of Panjshir" (شیر پنجشیر) among his followers. Supported by Britain's <a href="/wiki/MI6" title="MI6">MI6</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[7]</a> and to a lesser extent by the U.S. <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> (CIA),<a href="#cite_note-10">[8]</a> he successfully resisted the Soviets from taking the Panjshir Valley. In 1992, he signed the <a href="/wiki/Peshawar_Accord" title="Peshawar Accord">Peshawar Accord</a>, a peace and power-sharing agreement, in the post-communist <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic State of Afghanistan">Islamic State of Afghanistan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-11">[9]</a> He was appointed the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defense_(Afghanistan)" title="Ministry of Defense (Afghanistan)">Minister of Defense</a> as well as the government's main military commander. His militia fought to defend <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a> against militias led by <a href="/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar" title="Gulbuddin Hekmatyar">Gulbuddin Hekmatyar</a> and other warlords who were bombing the city,<a href="#cite_note-12">[10]</a> as well as later against the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>, who laid siege to the capital in January 1995 after the city had seen fierce fighting with at least 60,000 civilians killed.<a href="#cite_note-13">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[12]</a> Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam,<a href="#cite_note-Grad_310-15">[13]</a> returned to armed opposition until he was forced to flee to <a href="/wiki/Kulab,_Tajikistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Kulab, Tajikistan">Kulob</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tajikistan" title="Tajikistan">Tajikistan</a>, strategically destroying the <a href="/wiki/Salang_Tunnel" title="Salang Tunnel">Salang Tunnel</a> on his way north. He became the military and political leader of the <a href="/wiki/United_Islamic_Front_for_the_Salvation_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan">United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan</a> or Northern Alliance, which by 2000 controlled only between 5 and 10 percent of the country. In 2001 he visited Europe and urged <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a> leaders to pressure <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> on its support for the Taliban. He also asked for humanitarian aid to combat the Afghan people's gruesome conditions under the Taliban.<a href="#cite_note-telegraph.co.uk-16">[14]</a> On September 9, 2001, Massoud was injured in a <a href="/wiki/Suicide_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="Suicide bombing">suicide bombing</a> by two <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> assassins, ordered personally by the al-Qaeda leader <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a> himself;<a href="#cite_note-france24.com-17">[15]</a> he lost his life while en route to a hospital across the border in Tajikistan.<a href="#cite_note-timesofindia.indiatimes.com-18">[16]</a> Two days later, the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a> occurred in the United States, which ultimately led to the <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="North Atlantic Treaty Organization">North Atlantic Treaty Organization</a> (NATO) <a href="/wiki/US_invasion_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="US invasion of Afghanistan">invading</a> Afghanistan and allying with Massoud's forces. The Northern Alliance eventually won the two-month-long war in December 2001, removing the Taliban from power. Massoud has been described as one of the greatest guerrilla leaders of the 20th century and has been compared to <a href="/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito" title="Josip Broz Tito">Josip Broz Tito</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" title="Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>.<a href="#cite_note-19">[17]</a> Massoud was posthumously named "National Hero" by the order of President <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a> after the Taliban were ousted from power. The date of Massoud's death, September 9, was observed as a national holiday known as "Massoud Day" until the <a href="/wiki/2021_Taliban_offensive" title="2021 Taliban offensive">Taliban takeover</a> in August 2021.<a href="#cite_note-20">[18]</a> His followers call him Amer Sāhib-e Shahīd (آمر صاحب شهید), which translates to "(our) martyred commander".<a href="#cite_note-21">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[20]</a> A street in <a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a> was named after him in 2007.<a href="#cite_note-23">[21]</a> He has been posthumously honored by a <a href="/wiki/Commemorative_plaque" title="Commemorative plaque">plaque</a> in France in 2021,<a href="#cite_note-plaqueeuronews-24">[22]</a> and in the same year was awarded with the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Ismoili_Somoni" title="Order of Ismoili Somoni">highest honor of Tajikistan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-tajorder-25">[23]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Massoud%27s_Property.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Massoud%27s_Property.jpg/220px-Massoud%27s_Property.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Massoud%27s_Property.jpg/330px-Massoud%27s_Property.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Massoud%27s_Property.jpg/440px-Massoud%27s_Property.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1504" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>View of <a href="/wiki/Panjshir_Valley" title="Panjshir Valley">Panjshir Valley</a> from Massoud's Tomb</figcaption></figure> Ahmad Shah Massoud was born in 1953 in the small village of <a href="/wiki/Bazarak" title="Bazarak">Jangalak, Bazarak</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Panjshir_Valley" title="Panjshir Valley">Panjshir Valley</a> (now administered as part of the Panjshir Province), to a well-to-do family native to the <a href="/wiki/Panjshir_Valley" title="Panjshir Valley">Panjshir Valley</a>.<a href="#cite_note-26">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a> Massoud's name at birth was 'Ahmad Shah' after <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Durrani" title="Ahmad Shah Durrani">King Ahamad Shah Durrani</a>, founder of the modern, unified <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">state of Afghanistan</a>, later taking the name 'Massoud' as a <a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">nom de guerre</a> in 1974 when he joined the resistance movement against the forces of <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Daoud_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Daoud Khan">Daoud Khan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[26]</a> Massoud's father, Dost Mohammad, was a <a href="/wiki/Colonel" title="Colonel">colonel</a> in the Royal Afghan Army; his mother, Bibi Khorshaid has been described as a "modern-minded" woman who taught herself to read and write determined to educate her daughters no less than her sons.<a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a> Moving along with his father's postings, the adolescent Massoud attended <a href="/wiki/Primary_school" title="Primary school">primary school</a> in <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>'s western <a href="/wiki/Herat" title="Herat">city of Herat</a> before his father was dispatched to <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>.<a href="#cite_note-29">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a> There, Massoud was sent to the renowned <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">Franco</a>-<a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghan</a> <a href="/wiki/Centre_d%27Enseignement_Fran%C3%A7ais_en_Afghanistan" title="Centre d'Enseignement Français en Afghanistan">Lycée Esteqlal</a> (<a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit</a>. Independence High School) where he attained his proficiency in <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a> Massoud's experience at <a href="/wiki/Centre_d%27Enseignement_Fran%C3%A7ais_en_Afghanistan" title="Centre d'Enseignement Français en Afghanistan">Lycée</a> would be formative and, as he would later remark, was the happiest period of his life. At <a href="/wiki/Centre_d%27Enseignement_Fran%C3%A7ais_en_Afghanistan" title="Centre d'Enseignement Français en Afghanistan">Lycée</a> his classes were taught by French and Afghan tutors educated in <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and the students donned Western <a href="/wiki/Jacket" title="Jacket">jackets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Necktie" title="Necktie">neckties</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trousers" title="Trousers">trousers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Skirt" title="Skirt">skirts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scarf" title="Scarf">scarves</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Stocking" title="Stocking">stockings</a>. Although his knowledge of the <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French language</a> would earn him greater affinity among French <a href="/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">journalists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Politician" title="Politician">politicians</a>, later <a href="/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism">conservative</a> <a href="/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamist</a> opponents such as <a href="/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar" title="Gulbuddin Hekmatyar">Gulbuddin Hekmatyar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">the Taliban</a> would derogatorily dub him "The Frenchmen" or "The <a href="/wiki/Parisian_(person)" class="mw-redirect" title="Parisian (person)">Parisian</a>" suggestive of his sympathies to <a href="/wiki/Western_culture" title="Western culture">Western culture</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a> While at the <a href="/wiki/Centre_d%27Enseignement_Fran%C3%A7ais_en_Afghanistan" title="Centre d'Enseignement Français en Afghanistan">Lycée</a>, Massoud was described as an intellectually-gifted student, hard-working, religiously devout, and mature for his age with a particular interest in <a href="/wiki/Ethics" title="Ethics">ethics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">politics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Universal_jurisdiction" title="Universal jurisdiction">universal justice</a>. Friends and family recall an instance where Massoud, returning from school, came to the defense of a younger boy leaving the three <a href="/wiki/Bullying" title="Bullying">bullies</a> knocked-out on the pavement. More formatively, Massoud followed closely reports of the <a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">1967 Six-Day War</a> and the defiant statements of <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arab</a> leaders like <a href="/wiki/President_of_Egypt" title="President of Egypt">Egyptian President</a> <a href="/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser" title="Gamal Abdel Nasser">Gamal Abdel Nasser</a>. He later told researcher Peter DeNeufville that, at fourteen, the <a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">war</a> left him determined to be a <a href="/wiki/Soldier" title="Soldier">soldier</a> and gave him a new regard for <a href="/wiki/Pan-Islamism" title="Pan-Islamism">Pan-Islamism</a> after hearing the stories told by <a href="/wiki/Jordanian_Armed_Forces" title="Jordanian Armed Forces">Jordanian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Armed_Forces" title="Egyptian Armed Forces">Egyptian</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Armed_Forces" title="Syrian Armed Forces">Syrian</a> soldiers defending their homelands.<a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a> Massoud refused repeated suggestions to apply for a scholarship to study in France expressing his desire to remain in Afghanistan and apply to <a href="/wiki/National_Military_Academy_of_Afghanistan" title="National Military Academy of Afghanistan">the nation's military academy</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a> By protest of his father and eldest brother, Massoud enrolled at <a href="/wiki/Kabul_Polytechnic_University" title="Kabul Polytechnic University">Kabul Polytechnic Institute</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Kabul_University" title="Kabul University">Kabul University</a>'s newest and most prestigious addition founded, financed, and operated by the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>. Massoud studied <a href="/wiki/Engineering" title="Engineering">engineering</a> and <a href="/wiki/Architecture" title="Architecture">architecture</a> but never attempted to learn <a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>. There he found interest in <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">politics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Political_Islam" title="Political Islam">political Islam</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Anti-Communism" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Communism">anti-Communism</a> which often put him and his pious peers at odds with <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communist</a>-inspired students.<a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1975_rebellion_in_Panjshir">1975 rebellion in Panjshir</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1975_Panjshir_Valley_uprising" title="1975 Panjshir Valley uprising">1975 Panjshir Valley uprising</a></div> In 1973, former Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Daoud_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Daoud Khan">Mohammed Daoud Khan</a> was brought to power in a <a href="/wiki/1973_Afghan_coup" class="mw-redirect" title="1973 Afghan coup">coup d'état</a> backed by the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Party_of_Afghanistan" title="People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan">People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Afghanistan_(1973%E2%80%941978)" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Afghanistan (1973—1978)">Republic of Afghanistan</a> was established. These developments gave rise to an <a href="/wiki/Islamist" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamist">Islamist</a> movement opposed to the increasing <a href="/wiki/Communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist">communist</a> and Soviet influence over Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-Roy_Gutman2-31">[29]</a> During that time, while studying at <a href="/wiki/Kabul_University" title="Kabul University">Kabul University</a>, Massoud became involved with the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_Youth" title="Muslim Youth">Muslim Youth</a> (Sazman-i Jawanan-i Musulman), the student branch of the <a href="/wiki/Jamiat-e_Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamiat-e Islami">Jamiat-e Islami</a> (Islamic Society), whose chairman then was the professor <a href="/wiki/Burhanuddin_Rabbani" title="Burhanuddin Rabbani">Burhanuddin Rabbani</a>. <a href="/wiki/Kabul_University" title="Kabul University">Kabul University</a> was a center for political debate and activism during that time.<a href="#cite_note-Akbarzadeh_&_Yasmeen3-32">[30]</a> Infuriated by the arrogance of his <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communist</a> peers and <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russian</a> professors, a physical altercation between Massoud and his Russian professor led Massoud to walk out of the university, and shortly after, <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>. Two days later, Massoud and a number of fellow militant students traveled to <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> where, goaded by another trainee of the <a href="/wiki/Pakistanis" title="Pakistanis">Pakistani</a> <a href="/wiki/Inter-Services_Intelligence" title="Inter-Services Intelligence">Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar" title="Gulbuddin Hekmatyar">Gulbaddin Hekmatyar</a>, Massoud agreed to take part in a coup against <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Daoud_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Daoud Khan">Daoud</a> with his forces rising up in the <a href="/wiki/Panjshir_Province" title="Panjshir Province">Panjshir</a> and Hekmatyar's elsewhere.<a href="#cite_note-Akbarzadeh_&_Yasmeen3-32">[30]</a> In July 1975, Massoud, with help from the <a href="/wiki/Inter-Services_Intelligence" title="Inter-Services Intelligence">Pakistani intelligence</a>, led the <a href="/wiki/1975_Panjshir_Valley_uprising" title="1975 Panjshir Valley uprising">first rebellion</a> of Panjshir residents against the government of Daoud Khan.<a href="#cite_note-33">[31]</a> While the uprising in the <a href="/wiki/Panjshir_Valley" title="Panjshir Valley">Panjshir</a> saw initial success, even taking the military garrison in <a href="/wiki/Rokha_District" title="Rokha District">Rokha</a>, the promised support from Kabul never came and the rebellion was suppressed by <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Daoud_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Daoud Khan">Daoud Khan</a>'s forces sending Massoud back into <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> (after a day hiding in Jangalak) where he would attend a secret, <a href="/wiki/Paramilitary" title="Paramilitary">paramilitary</a> <a href="/wiki/Inter-Services_Intelligence" title="Inter-Services Intelligence">ISI</a> training center in <a href="/wiki/Cherat" title="Cherat">Cherat</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a> Dissatisfied, Massoud left the center and returned to <a href="/wiki/Peshawar" title="Peshawar">Peshawar</a> where he committed himself to personal <a href="/wiki/Military_science" title="Military science">military studies</a>. Massoud read <a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Tse-tung's</a> writings on the <a href="/wiki/Long_March" title="Long March">Long March</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>'s career, the memoirs of <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">General de Gualle</a>, <a href="/wiki/V%C3%B5_Nguy%C3%AAn_Gi%C3%A1p" title="Võ Nguyên Giáp">General Võ Nguyên Giáp</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sun_Tzu" title="Sun Tzu">Sun Tzu</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Art_of_War" title="The Art of War">Art of War</a>, and an unnamed handbook on <a href="/wiki/Counterterrorism" title="Counterterrorism">counterterrorism</a> by an American general which Massoud called "the most instructive of all".<a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-Akbarzadeh_&_Yasmeen3-32">[30]</a> After this failure, a "profound and long-lasting schism" within the Islamist movement began to emerge.<a href="#cite_note-Roy_Gutman2-31">[29]</a> The Islamic Society split between supporters of the more moderate forces around Massoud and <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Rabbani" title="Mohammad Rabbani">Rabbani</a>, who led the <a href="/wiki/Jamiat-e_Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamiat-e Islami">Jamiat-i Islami</a>, and more radical Islamist elements surrounding <a href="/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar" title="Gulbuddin Hekmatyar">Gulbuddin Hekmatyar</a>, who founded the <a href="/wiki/Hezb-i_Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Hezb-i Islami">Hezb-i Islami</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Akbarzadeh_&_Yasmeen3-32">[30]</a> The conflict reached such a point that <a href="/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar" title="Gulbuddin Hekmatyar">Hekmatyar</a> reportedly tried to kill Massoud, then 22 years old.<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-Roy_Gutman2-31">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Resistance_against_communism">Resistance against communism</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Resistance_against_the_PDPA_(1978)">Resistance against the PDPA (1978)</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Saur_Revolution" title="Saur Revolution">Saur Revolution</a></div> The government of <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Daoud_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Daoud Khan">Mohammed Daoud Khan</a> tried to scale back the communist <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Party_of_Afghanistan" title="People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan">People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan</a>'s influence, dismissing PDPA members from their government posts, appointing conservatives to replace them, and finally dissolved the PDPA, with the arrests of senior party members.<a href="#cite_note-Neamatollah_Nojumi2-34">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-Neamatollah_Nojumi_(2)2-35">[33]</a> On April 27, 1978, the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Party_of_Afghanistan" title="People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan">PDPA</a> and military units loyal to it killed <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Daoud_Khan" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Daoud Khan">Daoud Khan</a>, his immediate family, and bodyguards in a violent coup, and seized control of the capital <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a> declaring the new <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Democratic Republic of Afghanistan">Democratic Republic of Afghanistan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Democratic Republic of Afghanistan">DRA</a>).<a href="#cite_note-Neamatollah_Nojumi_(3)2-36">[34]</a> The new communist government, led by a revolutionary council, did not enjoy the support of the masses.<a href="#cite_note-Neamatollah_Nojumi_(4)2-37">[35]</a> It implemented a doctrine hostile to political dissent, whether inside or outside the party.<a href="#cite_note-Neamatollah_Nojumi_(4)2-37">[35]</a> The <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Party_of_Afghanistan" title="People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan">PDPA</a> started reforms along <a href="/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" title="Marxism–Leninism">Marxist–Leninist</a> and Soviet lines. The reforms and the PDPA's affinity to the Soviet Union were met with strong resistance by the population, especially as the government attempted to enforce its Marxist policies by arresting or executing those who resisted. Between 50,000 and 100,000 people were estimated to have been arrested and killed by communist troops in the countryside alone.<a href="#cite_note-Oliver_Roy2-38">[36]</a> Due to the repression, large parts of the country, especially the rural areas, organized into open revolt against the PDPA government.<a href="#cite_note-Oliver_Roy_(2)2-39">[37]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>] By spring 1979, unrest had reached 24 out of 28 Afghan provinces, including major urban areas. Over half of the Afghan army either deserted or joined the insurrection.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] With religious elders declaring a <a href="/wiki/Jihad" title="Jihad">jihad</a> against the government, in May 1979 Massoud prepared in <a href="/wiki/Peshawar" title="Peshawar">Peshawar</a> to oppose the new communist government in <a href="/wiki/Panjshir_Province" title="Panjshir Province">Panjshir</a>. Along with twenty-four of his friends, Massoud took a bus to <a href="/wiki/Bajaur_District" title="Bajaur District">Bajaur</a> and, with arms-smuggling <a href="/wiki/Pashtuns" title="Pashtuns">Pashtun</a> tribesmen, marched on foot into the <a href="/wiki/Panjshir_Valley" title="Panjshir Valley">Panjshir Valley</a>. Massoud's group seized control over a number of government outposts in the <a href="/wiki/Panjshir_Valley" title="Panjshir Valley">Valley</a>, entered the <a href="/wiki/Shomali_Plain" title="Shomali Plain">Shomali Plain</a> to capture <a href="/wiki/Gulbahar,_Afghanistan" title="Gulbahar, Afghanistan">Gulbahar</a>, and cut off the <a href="/wiki/Salang_Tunnel" title="Salang Tunnel">Salang Highway</a>, the main supply route between <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> border raising alarm in both <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> which brought upon Massoud and his group a government counterattack.<a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-Akbarzadeh_&_Yasmeen3-32">[30]</a> Believing that an uprising against the Soviet-backed communists would be supported by the people, Massoud, on July 6, 1979, started an insurrection in the Panjshir, which initially failed. Massoud decided to avoid conventional confrontation with the larger government forces and to wage a <a href="/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare" title="Guerrilla warfare">guerrilla war</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[38]</a> He subsequently took full control of Panjshir, pushing out Afghan communist troops.<a href="#cite_note-:02-27">[25]</a> Oliver Roy writes that in the following period, Massoud's "personal prestige and the efficiency of his military organization persuaded many local commanders to come and learn from him."<a href="#cite_note-Oliver_Roy_(3)2-41">[39]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Resistance_against_the_Soviet_Union_(1979–1989)">Resistance against the Soviet Union (1979–1989)</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War" title="Soviet–Afghan War">Soviet–Afghan War</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Afghanistan_insurgency_1985.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Afghanistan_insurgency_1985.png/220px-Afghanistan_insurgency_1985.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Afghanistan_insurgency_1985.png/330px-Afghanistan_insurgency_1985.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Afghanistan_insurgency_1985.png/440px-Afghanistan_insurgency_1985.png 2x" data-file-width="3426" data-file-height="2689" /></a><figcaption>Major resistance forces against the Soviets 1985; Army-green depicts locations of <a href="/wiki/Jamiat-i_Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamiat-i Islami">Jamiat-i Islami</a>. <a href="/wiki/Shura-e_Nazar" title="Shura-e Nazar">Shura-e Nazar</a> (Massoud's alliance) comprised many Jamiat positions but also those of other groups.</figcaption></figure> Following the <a href="/wiki/1979_Soviet_invasion_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan">1979 Soviet invasion</a> and occupation of Afghanistan, Massoud devised a strategic plan for expelling the invaders and overthrowing the communist regime. The first task was to establish a popularly based resistance force that had the loyalty of the people. The second phase was "active defense" of the Panjshir stronghold, while carrying out <a href="/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare" title="Asymmetric warfare">asymmetric warfare</a>. In the third phase, the "strategic offensive", Massoud's forces would gain control of large parts of Northern Afghanistan. The fourth phase was the "general application" of Massoud's principles to the whole country, and the defeat of the Afghan communist government.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Massoud's <a href="/wiki/Mujahideen" title="Mujahideen">mujahideen</a> attacked the occupying Soviet forces, ambushing Soviet and Afghan communist convoys travelling through the <a href="/wiki/Salang_Pass" title="Salang Pass">Salang Pass</a>, and causing fuel shortages in Kabul.<a href="#cite_note-Iyer-42">[40]</a> The Soviets mounted a <a href="/wiki/Panjshir_offensives" class="mw-redirect" title="Panjshir offensives">series of offensives</a> against the Panjshir. Between 1980 and 1985, these offensives were conducted twice a year. Despite engaging more men and hardware on each occasion, the Soviets were unable to defeat Massoud's forces. In 1982, the Soviets began deploying major combat units in the Panjshir, numbering up to 30,000 men. Massoud pulled his troops back into subsidiary valleys, where they occupied fortified positions. When the Soviet columns advanced onto these positions, they fell into ambushes. When the Soviets withdrew, Afghan army garrisons took over their positions. Massoud and his mujahideen forces attacked and recaptured them one by one.<a href="#cite_note-43">[41]</a> In 1983, the Soviets offered Massoud a temporary truce, which he accepted in order to rebuild his own forces and give the civilian population a break from Soviet attacks. He put the respite to good use. In this time he created the <a href="/wiki/Shura-e_Nazar" title="Shura-e Nazar">Shura-e Nazar</a> (Supervisory Council), which subsequently united 130 commanders from 12 Afghan provinces in their fight against the Soviet army. This council existed outside the Peshawar parties, which were prone to internecine rivalry and bickering, and served to smooth out differences between resistance groups, due to political and ethnic divisions. It was the predecessor of what could have become a unified Islamic Afghan army.<a href="#cite_note-44">[42]</a> Relations with the party headquarters in <a href="/wiki/Peshawar" title="Peshawar">Peshawar</a> were often strained, as Rabbani insisted on giving Massoud no more weapons and supplies than to other Jamiat commanders, even those who did little fighting. To compensate for this deficiency, Massoud relied on revenues drawn from exports of <a href="/wiki/Emerald" title="Emerald">emeralds</a><a href="#cite_note-45">[43]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lapis_lazuli" title="Lapis lazuli">lapis lazuli</a>,<a href="#cite_note-46">[44]</a> that are traditionally exploited in Northern Afghanistan. Regarding infighting among different mujahideen factions, following a Soviet truce, Massoud said in an interview:<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><a href="/wiki/Hezb-i_Islami_Gulbuddin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hezb-i Islami Gulbuddin">Hezb-i Islami</a> men are like cancer, that is why one has to treat the cancer first.<a href="#cite_note-47">[45]</a></blockquote> Britain's <a href="/wiki/MI6" title="MI6">MI6</a> having activated long-established networks of contacts in Pakistan were able to support Massoud, and soon <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_in_the_Soviet-Afghan_War" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom in the Soviet-Afghan War">became their key ally</a>. MI6 sent an annual mission of two of their officers as well as military instructors to Massoud and his fighters. They also gave supplies to Massoud which included sniper rifles with silencers and mortars. As well as training Massoud's junior commanders, MI6 team's most important contribution was help with organisation and communication via radio equipment which was highly useful for Massoud to coordinate his forces and be warned of any impending Soviet attacks.<a href="#cite_note-Dorril752-48">[46]</a> The United States provided him with comparatively less support than other factions.<a href="#cite_note-phillips-49">[47]</a> Part of the reason was that it permitted its funding and arms distribution to be administered by Pakistan, which favored the rival mujahideen leader <a href="/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar" title="Gulbuddin Hekmatyar">Gulbuddin Hekmatyar</a>. In an interview, Massoud said, "We thought the <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</a> knew everything. But they didn't. They supported some bad people [meaning Hekmatyar]."[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Primary advocates for supporting Massoud were the US <a href="/wiki/State_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="State Department">State Department</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Edmund_McWilliams" title="Edmund McWilliams">Edmund McWilliams</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Tomsen" title="Peter Tomsen">Peter Tomsen</a>, who were on the ground in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Others included two <a href="/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation" title="The Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a> foreign policy analysts, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Johns_(policy_analyst)" title="Michael Johns (policy analyst)">Michael Johns</a> and James A. Phillips, both of whom championed Massoud as the Afghan resistance leader most worthy of U.S. support under the <a href="/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine" title="Reagan Doctrine">Reagan Doctrine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-phillips-49">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-50">[48]</a> Thousands of foreign Islamic volunteers entered Afghanistan to fight with the mujahideen against the Soviet troops. To organize support for the mujahideen, Massoud established an administrative system that enforced law and order (nazm) in areas under his control. The Panjshir was divided into 22 bases (qarargah) governed by a military commander and a civilian administrator, and each had a judge, a prosecutor and a <a href="/wiki/Public_defender" title="Public defender">public defender</a>.<a href="#cite_note-51">[49]</a> Massoud's policies were implemented by different committees: an economic committee was charged with funding the war effort. The health committee provided health services, assisted by volunteers from foreign <a href="/wiki/Humanitarian_aid" title="Humanitarian aid">humanitarian</a> <a href="/wiki/Non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization">non-governmental organizations</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Aide_m%C3%A9dicale_internationale" class="mw-redirect" title="Aide médicale internationale">Aide médicale internationale</a>. An education committee was charged with the training of the military and administrative <a href="/wiki/En_cadre" class="mw-redirect" title="En cadre">cadre</a>. A culture committee and a judiciary committee were also created.<a href="#cite_note-52">[50]</a> This expansion prompted <a href="/wiki/Babrak_Karmal" title="Babrak Karmal">Babrak Karmal</a> to demand that the Red Army resume their offensives, in order to crush the Panjshir groups. Massoud received warning of the attack through Britain's <a href="/wiki/GCHQ" title="GCHQ">GCHQ</a> intelligence and he evacuated all 130,000 inhabitants from the valley into the Hindukush mountains, leaving the Soviet bombings to fall on empty ground and the Soviet battalions to face the mountains.<a href="#cite_note-53">[51]</a> With the defeat of the Soviet-Afghan attacks, Massoud carried out the next phase of his strategic plan, expanding the resistance movement and liberating the northern provinces of Afghanistan. In August 1986, he captured <a href="/wiki/Farkhar_District" title="Farkhar District">Farkhar</a> in <a href="/wiki/Takhar_Province" title="Takhar Province">Takhar Province</a>. In November 1986, his forces overran the headquarters of the government's 20th division at Nahrin in <a href="/wiki/Baghlan_Province" title="Baghlan Province">Baghlan Province</a>, scoring an important victory for the resistance.<a href="#cite_note-54">[52]</a> This expansion was also carried out through diplomatic means, as more mujahideen commanders were persuaded to adopt the Panjshir military system. Despite almost constant attacks by the Red Army and the Afghan army, Massoud increased his military strength. Starting in 1980 with a force of less than 1,000 ill-equipped guerrillas, the Panjshir valley mujahideen grew to a 5,000-strong force by 1984.<a href="#cite_note-Iyer-42">[40]</a> After expanding his influence outside the valley, Massoud increased his resistance forces to 13,000 fighters by 1989.<a href="#cite_note-55">[53]</a> The junior commanders were trained by Britain's <a href="/wiki/Special_Air_Service" title="Special Air Service">SAS</a> as well as private military contractors, some being sent as far as <a href="/wiki/Oman" title="Oman">Oman</a> and even SAS training grounds in the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Highlands" title="Scottish Highlands">Scottish Highlands</a>. These forces were divided into different types of units: the locals (mahalli) were tasked with static defense of villages and fortified positions. The best of the mahalli were formed into units called grup-i zarbati (shock troops), semi-mobile groups that acted as <a href="/wiki/Military_reserve" title="Military reserve">reserve</a> forces for the defense of several strongholds. A different type of unit was the mobile group (grup-i-mutaharek), a lightly equipped <a href="/wiki/Commando" title="Commando">commando</a>-like formation numbering 33 men, whose mission was to carry out <a href="/wiki/Hit-and-run_tactics" title="Hit-and-run tactics">hit-and-run</a> attacks outside the Panjshir, sometimes as far as 100 km from their base. These men were professional soldiers, well-paid and trained, and, from 1983 on, they provided an effective strike force against government outposts. Uniquely among the mujahideen, these groups wore uniforms, and their use of the <a href="/wiki/Pakul" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakul">pakul</a> made this headwear emblematic of the Afghan resistance.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Massoud's military organization was an effective compromise between the traditional Afghan method of warfare and the modern principles of guerrilla warfare which he had learned from the works of <a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a> and <a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>. His forces were considered the most effective of all the various Afghan resistance movements.<a href="#cite_note-56">[54]</a> The Soviet army and the Afghan communist army were mainly defeated by Massoud and his mujahideen in numerous small engagements between 1984 and 1988[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]. After describing the Soviet Union's military engagement in Afghanistan as "a bleeding wound" in 1986,<a href="#cite_note-57">[55]</a> Soviet General Secretary <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> began a withdrawal of Soviet troops from the nation in May 1988. On February 15, 1989, in what was depicted as an improbable victory for the mujahideen, the last Soviet soldier left the nation.<a href="#cite_note-58">[56]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fall_of_the_Afghan_communist_regime_(1992)">Fall of the Afghan communist regime (1992)</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Civil_war_in_Afghanistan_(1989%E2%80%931992)" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–1992)">Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–1992)</a></div> After the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_troop_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan">departure of Soviet troops</a> in 1989, the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Party_of_Afghanistan" title="People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan">People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan</a> regime, then headed by <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Najibullah" title="Mohammad Najibullah">Mohammad Najibullah</a>, held its own against the mujahideen. Backed by a massive influx of weapons from the Soviet Union, the Afghan armed forces reached a level of performance they had never reached under direct Soviet tutelage. They maintained control over all of Afghanistan's major cities. During late 1990, helped by hundreds of mujahideen forces, Massoud targeted the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Soviet_of_the_Tajik_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR">Tajik Supreme Soviet</a>, trying to oust communism from the neighboring Tajikistan to further destabilize the dying Soviet Union, which would also impact the Afghan government.<a href="#cite_note-59">[57]</a> At that time, as per <a href="/wiki/Asad_Durrani" title="Asad Durrani">Asad Durrani</a>, the director-general of the ISI during this period, Massoud's base camp was in <a href="/wiki/Garam_Chashma" title="Garam Chashma">Garam Chashma</a>, in Pakistan.<a href="#cite_note-60">[58]</a> By 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Afghan regime eventually began to crumble. Food and fuel shortages undermined the capacities of the government's army, and a resurgence of factionalism split the regime between <a href="/wiki/Khalq" title="Khalq">Khalq</a> and <a href="/wiki/Parcham" title="Parcham">Parcham</a> supporters.<a href="#cite_note-LoC-61">[59]</a> A few days after Najibullah had lost control of the nation, his army commanders and governors arranged to turn over authority to resistance commanders and local warlords throughout the country. Joint councils (shuras) were immediately established for local government, in which civil and military officials of the former government were usually included. In many cases, prior arrangements for transferring regional and local authority had been made between foes.<a href="#cite_note-LoC-61">[59]</a> Collusions between military leaders quickly brought down the Kabul government. In mid-January 1992, within three weeks of the demise of the Soviet Union, Massoud was aware of conflict within the government's northern command. General <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Momim" title="Abdul Momim">Abdul Momim</a>, in charge of the <a href="/wiki/Hairatan" title="Hairatan">Hairatan</a> border crossing at the northern end of Kabul's supply highway, and other non-<a href="/wiki/Pashtun_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Pashtun people">Pashtun</a> generals based in <a href="/wiki/Mazar-i-Sharif" title="Mazar-i-Sharif">Mazar-i-Sharif</a>, feared removal by Najibullah and replacement by Pashtun officers. When the generals rebelled, <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum" title="Abdul Rashid Dostum">Abdul Rashid Dostum</a>, who held <a href="/wiki/General_Officer" class="mw-redirect" title="General Officer">general rank</a> as head of the <a href="/wiki/Jowzjan" class="mw-redirect" title="Jowzjan">Jowzjani</a> militia, also based in Mazar-i-Sharif, took over.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] He and Massoud reached a political agreement, together with another major militia leader, Sayyed Mansour, of the <a href="/wiki/Ismaili" class="mw-redirect" title="Ismaili">Ismaili</a> community based in Baghlan Province. These northern allies consolidated their position in Mazar-i-Sharif on March 21. Their coalition covered nine provinces in the north and northeast. As turmoil developed within the government in Kabul, no government force stood between the northern allies and the major <a href="/wiki/Bagram_Air_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagram Air Base">air force base at Bagram</a>, some seventy kilometers north of Kabul. By mid-April 1992, the Afghan air force command at Bagram had capitulated to Massoud.<a href="#cite_note-LoC-61">[59]</a> On March 18, 1992, Najibullah decided to resign. On April 17, as his government fell, he tried to escape but was stopped at <a href="/wiki/Kabul_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Kabul Airport">Kabul Airport</a> by Dostum's forces. He took refuge at the United Nations mission, where he remained unharmed until 1996, while Massoud controlled the area surrounding the mission.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Senior communist generals and officials of the Najibullah administration acted as a transitional authority to transfer power to Ahmad Shah Massoud's alliance.<a href="#cite_note-Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies-62">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies_(2)-63">[61]</a> The Kabul interim authority invited Massoud to enter Kabul as the new Head of State, but he held back.<a href="#cite_note-Roy_Gutman-64">[62]</a> Massoud ordered his forces, positioned to the north of Kabul, not to enter the capital until a political solution was in place.<a href="#cite_note-Roy_Gutman_(2)-65">[63]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">page needed</a>] He called on all the senior Afghan party leaders, many then based in exile in <a href="/wiki/Peshawar" title="Peshawar">Peshawar</a>, to work out a political settlement acceptable to all sides and parties.<a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal-66">[64]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="War_in_Afghanistan_(1992–2001)">War in Afghanistan (1992–2001)</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="War_in_Kabul_and_other_parts_of_the_country_(1992–1996)">War in Kabul and other parts of the country (1992–1996)</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Civil_war_in_Afghanistan_(1992%E2%80%931996)" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil war in Afghanistan (1992–1996)">Civil war in Afghanistan (1992–1996)</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Peace_and_power-sharing_agreement_(1992)">Peace and power-sharing agreement (1992)</h4></div> With United Nations support, most Afghan political parties decided to appoint a legitimate national government to succeed communist rule, through an elite settlement.<a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal-66">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-Peter_Tomsen_2-67">[65]</a> While the external Afghan party leaders were residing in Peshawar, the military situation around Kabul involving the internal commanders was tense. A 1991 UN peace process brought about some negotiations, but the attempted elite settlement did not develop.<a href="#cite_note-Peter_Tomsen_2-67">[65]</a> In April 1992, resistance leaders in Peshawar tried to negotiate a settlement. Massoud supported the Peshawar process of establishing a broad coalition government inclusive of all resistance parties, but Hekmatyar sought to become the sole ruler of Afghanistan, stating, "In our country coalition government is impossible because, this way or another, it is going to be weak and incapable of stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan."<a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal_(3)-68">[66]</a> Massoud wrote: <blockquote>All the parties had participated in the war, in jihad in Afghanistan, so they had to have their share in the government, and in the formation of the government. Afghanistan is made up of different nationalities. We were worried about a national conflict between different tribes and different nationalities. In order to give everybody their own rights and also to avoid bloodshed in Kabul, we left the word to the parties so they should decide about the country as a whole. We talked about it for a temporary stage and then after that the ground should be prepared for a general election.<a href="#cite_note-Neamatollah_Nojumi_(5)-69">[67]</a></blockquote> A recorded radio communication between the two leaders showed the divide as Massoud asked Hekmatyar:<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-70">[68]</a> <blockquote>The Kabul regime is ready to surrender, so instead of the fighting we should gather. ... The leaders are meeting in Peshawar. ... The troops should not enter Kabul, they should enter later on as part of the government.</blockquote> Hekmatyar's response: <blockquote>We will march into Kabul with our naked sword. No one can stop us. ... Why should we meet the leaders?" </blockquote> Massoud answered: <blockquote>"It seems to me that you don't want to join the leaders in Peshawar nor stop your threat, and you are planning to enter Kabul ... in that case I must defend the people.</blockquote> At that point <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a>, trying to mediate, urged Hekmatyar to "go back with your brothers" and to accept a compromise. Bin Laden reportedly "hated Ahmad Shah Massoud".<a href="#cite_note-Faraj_Ismail-71">[69]</a> Bin Laden was involved in ideological and personal disputes with Massoud<a href="#cite_note-Johnny_Ryan-72">[70]</a> and had sided with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar against Massoud in the inner-Afghan conflict since the late 1980s.<a href="#cite_note-Steve_Coll_(2)-73">[71]</a> But Hekmatyar refused to accept a compromise, confident that he would be able to gain sole power in Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-Roy_Gutman_37-74">[72]</a> On April 24, 1992, the leaders in Peshawar agreed on and signed the <a href="/wiki/Peshawar_Accord" title="Peshawar Accord">Peshawar Accord</a>, establishing the post-communist <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic State of Afghanistan">Islamic State of Afghanistan</a> – which was a stillborn 'state' with a paralyzed 'government' right from its inception, until its final succumbing in September 1996.<a href="#cite_note-photius,peshawar-75">[73]</a> The creation of the Islamic State was welcomed though by the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">General Assembly of the United Nations</a><a href="#cite_note-Max_Planck_Yearbook-76">[74]</a> and the Islamic State of Afghanistan was recognized as the legitimate entity representing Afghanistan until June 2002, when its successor, the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic Republic of Afghanistan">Islamic Republic of Afghanistan</a>, was established under the interim government of <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Columbia_World_Dictionary-77">[75]</a> Under the 1992 Peshawar Accord, the Defense Ministry was given to Massoud while the Prime Ministership was given to Hekmatyar. Hekmatyar refused to sign. With the exception of Hekmatyar's Hezb-e Islami, all of the other Peshawar resistance parties were unified under this peace and power-sharing accord in April 1992. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Escalating_war_over_Kabul_(1992)">Escalating war over Kabul (1992)</h4></div> Although repeatedly offered the position of prime minister, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar refused to recognize the peace and power-sharing agreement. His <a href="/wiki/Hezb-e_Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Hezb-e Islami">Hezb-e Islami</a> militia initiated a massive bombardment campaign against the Islamic State and the capital city Kabul. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar received operational, financial and military support from neighboring <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Neamatollah_Nojumi-78">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal-66">[64]</a> The Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the <a href="/wiki/Australian_National_University" title="Australian National University">Australian National University</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amin_Saikal" title="Amin Saikal">Amin Saikal</a>, writes in Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival that without Pakistan's support, Hekmatyar "would not have been able to target and destroy half of Kabul."<a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal-66">[64]</a> Saikal states that Pakistan wanted to install a favorable regime under Hekmatyar in Kabul so that it could use Afghan territory for access to <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal-66">[64]</a> Hekmatyar's rocket bombardments and the parallel escalation of violent conflict between two militias, Ittihad and Wahdat, which had entered some suburbs of Kabul, led to a breakdown in law and order. Shia <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> and Sunni Wahabbi <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>, as competitors for regional <a href="/wiki/Hegemony" title="Hegemony">hegemony</a>, encouraged conflict between the Ittihad and Wahdat factions. On the one side was the Shia Hazara <a href="/wiki/Hezb-i_Wahdat" class="mw-redirect" title="Hezb-i Wahdat">Hezb-i Wahdat</a> of <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Ali_Mazari" title="Abdul Ali Mazari">Abdul Ali Mazari</a> and on the other side, the Sunni Pashtun <a href="/wiki/Ittihad-i_Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Ittihad-i Islami">Ittihad-i Islami</a> of <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rasul_Sayyaf" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Rasul Sayyaf">Abdul Rasul Sayyaf</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Human_Rights_Watch_(4)-79">[77]</a> According to Human Rights Watch, Iran was strongly supporting the Hezb-i Wahdat forces, with Iranian intelligence officials providing direct orders, while Saudi Arabia supported Sayyaf and his Ittihad-i Islami faction to maximize Wahhabi influence.<a href="#cite_note-Human_Rights_Watch_(4)-79">[77]</a> Kabul descended into lawlessness and chaos, as described in reports by Human Rights Watch and the Afghanistan Justice Project.<a href="#cite_note-Human_Rights_Watch_(4)-79">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-Afghanistan_Justice_Project-80">[78]</a> Massoud's Jamiat commanders, the interim government, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) repeatedly tried to negotiate ceasefires, which broke down in only a few days.<a href="#cite_note-Human_Rights_Watch_(4)-79">[77]</a> Another militia, the <a href="/wiki/Junbish-i_Milli" class="mw-redirect" title="Junbish-i Milli">Junbish-i Milli</a> of former communist general <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum" title="Abdul Rashid Dostum">Abdul Rashid Dostum</a>, was backed by <a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal-66">[64]</a> Uzbek president <a href="/wiki/Islam_Karimov" title="Islam Karimov">Islam Karimov</a> was keen to see Dostum controlling as much of Afghanistan as possible, especially in the north.<a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal-66">[64]</a> Dostum repeatedly changed allegiances. The Afghanistan Justice Project (AJP) says, that "while [Hekmatyar's anti-government] Hizb-i Islami is frequently named as foremost among the factions responsible for the deaths and destruction in the bombardment of Kabul, it was not the only perpetrator of these violations."<a href="#cite_note-Afghanistan_Justice_Project-80">[78]</a> According to the AJP, "the scale of the bombardment and kinds of weapons used represented disproportionate use of force" in a capital city with primarily residential areas by all the factions involved – including the government forces.<a href="#cite_note-Afghanistan_Justice_Project-80">[78]</a> Crimes were committed by individuals within the different armed factions. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar released 10,000 dangerous criminals from the main prisons into the streets of Kabul to destabilize the city and cut off Kabul from water, food and energy supplies. The Iran-controlled Wahdat of <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Ali_Mazari" title="Abdul Ali Mazari">Abdul Ali Mazari</a>, as well as the Ittihad of <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rasul_Sayyaf" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Rasul Sayyaf">Abdul Rasul Sayyaf</a> supported by Saudi Arabia, targeted civilians of the 'opposite side' in systematic atrocities. <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum" title="Abdul Rashid Dostum">Abdul Rashid Dostum</a> allowed crimes as a perceived payment for his troops.<a href="#cite_note-Human_Rights_Watch_(5)-81">[79]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Afshar_operation_(February_1993)">Afshar operation (February 1993)</h4></div> "The major criticism of Massoud's human rights record" is the escalation of the <a href="/wiki/Afshar_Operation" title="Afshar Operation">Afshar military operation</a> in 1993.<a href="#cite_note-Roy_Gutman_2-82">[80]</a> A report by the Afghanistan Justice Project describes Massoud as failing to prevent atrocities carried out by his forces and those of their factional ally, Ittihad-i Islami, against civilians on taking the suburb of Afshar during a <a href="/wiki/Afshar_operation" class="mw-redirect" title="Afshar operation">military operation</a> against an anti-state militia allied to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. They shelled residential areas in the capital city in February 1993. Critics said that Massoud should have foreseen these problems.<a href="#cite_note-Afghanistan_Justice_Project-80">[78]</a> A meeting convened by Massoud on the next day ordered a halt to killing and looting, but it failed to stop abuses.<a href="#cite_note-Afghanistan_Justice_Project-80">[78]</a> <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a>, in a report based largely on the material collected by the Afghanistan Justice Project, concurs that Massoud's Jamiat forces bear a share of the responsibility for human rights abuses throughout the war, including the indiscriminate targeting of civilians in Afshar, and that Massoud was personally implicated in some of these abuses.<a href="#cite_note-83">[81]</a> <a href="/wiki/Roy_Gutman" title="Roy Gutman">Roy Gutman</a> has argued that the witness reports about Afshar cited in the AJP report implicated only the Ittihad forces, and that these had not been under Massoud's direct command.<a href="#cite_note-Roy_Gutman_2-82">[80]</a> Anthony Davis, who studied and observed Massoud's forces from 1981 to 2001, reported that during the observed period, there was "no pattern of repeated killings of enemy civilians or military prisoners" by Massoud's forces.<a href="#cite_note-Roy_Gutman_2-82">[80]</a> Edward Girardet, who covered Afghanistan for over three decades, was also in Kabul during the war. He states that while Massoud was able to control most of his commanders well during the anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban resistance, he was not able to control every commander in Kabul. According to this and similar testimonies, this was due to a breakdown of law and order in Kabul and a war on multiple fronts, which they say, Massoud personally had done all in his power to prevent:<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Massoud was always talking to his people about not behaving badly; he told them that they were accountable to their God. But because of the rocket attacks on the city the number of troops had to be increased, so there were ten or twelve thousand troops from other sources that came in ... He [Massoud] not only did not order any [crimes], but he was deeply distressed by them. I remember once ... Massoud commented that some commanders were behaving badly, and said that he was trying to bring them to justice ...<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Eng. Mohammad Eshaq, in Massoud (Webster University Press, 2009)</cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Further_war_over_Kabul_(March–December_1993)">Further war over Kabul (March–December 1993)</h4></div> In 1993, Massoud created the Cooperative Mohammad Ghazali Culture Foundation (Bonyad-e Farhangi wa Ta'wani Mohammad-e Ghazali) to further humanitarian assistance and politically independent Afghan culture.<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a> The Ghazali Foundation provided free medical services during some days of the week to residents of Kabul who were unable to pay for medical treatment.<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a> The Ghazali Foundation's department for distribution of auxiliary goods was the first partner of the Red Cross. The Ghazali Foundation's department of family consultation was a free advisory board, which was accessible seven days a week for the indigent. Although Massoud was responsible for the financing of the foundation, he did not interfere with its cultural work. A council led the foundation and a jury, consisting of impartial university lecturers, decided on the works of artists. The Ghazali foundation enabled Afghan artists to exhibit their works at different places in Kabul, and numerous artists and authors were honoured for their works; some of them neither proponents of Massoud nor the Islamic State government.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In March 1993, Massoud resigned his government position in exchange for peace, as requested by Hekmatyar, who considered him as a personal rival.<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal_(3)-68">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated3-84">[82]</a> According to the <a href="/wiki/Islamabad_Accord" title="Islamabad Accord">Islamabad Accord</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burhanuddin_Rabbani" title="Burhanuddin Rabbani">Burhanuddin Rabbani</a>, belonging to the same party as Massoud, remained president, while Gulbuddin Hekmatyar took the long-offered position of prime minister. Two days after the Islamabad Accord went into effect, his allies in <a href="/wiki/Hezb-e_Wahdat" class="mw-redirect" title="Hezb-e Wahdat">Hezb-e Wahdat</a> renewed rocket attacks in Kabul.<a href="#cite_note-Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies-62">[60]</a> Both the Wahhabi Pashtun <a href="/wiki/Ittehad-i_Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Ittehad-i Islami">Ittehad-i Islami</a> of <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rasul_Sayyaf" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Rasul Sayyaf">Abdul Rasul Sayyaf</a> backed by Saudi Arabia and the Shia Hazara Hezb-e Wahdat supported by Iran remained involved in heavy fighting against each other.<a href="#cite_note-Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies-62">[60]</a> Hekmatyar was afraid to enter Kabul proper, and chaired only one cabinet meeting. The author <a href="/wiki/Roy_Gutman" title="Roy Gutman">Roy Gutman</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Institute_of_Peace" title="United States Institute of Peace">United States Institute of Peace</a> wrote in How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan: <blockquote>Hekmatyar had become prime minister ... But after chairing one cabinet meeting, Hekmatyar never returned to the capital, fearing, perhaps, a <a href="/wiki/Lynching" title="Lynching">lynching</a> by Kabulis infuriated over his role in destroying their city. Even his close aides were embarrassed. Hekmatyar spokesman Qutbuddin Helal was still setting up shop in the prime minister's palace when the city came under Hezb[-i Islami] rocket fire late that month. "We are here in Kabul and he is rocketing us. Now we have to leave. We can't do anything," he told Massoud aides.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated6-85">[83]</a></blockquote> Hekmatyar, who was generally opposed to coalition government and struggled for undisputed power, had conflicts with other parties over the selection of cabinet members. His forces started major attacks against Kabul for one month.<a href="#cite_note-Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies-62">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal_(3)-68">[66]</a> The President, <a href="/wiki/Burhanuddin_Rabbani" title="Burhanuddin Rabbani">Burhanuddin Rabbani</a>, was attacked when he attempted to meet Hekmatyar.<a href="#cite_note-Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies-62">[60]</a> Massoud resumed his responsibilities as minister of defense. In May 1993, a new effort was made to reinstate the Islamabad Accord.<a href="#cite_note-Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies-62">[60]</a> In August, Massoud reached out to Hekmatyar in an attempt to broaden the government.<a href="#cite_note-Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies-62">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal_(2)-86">[84]</a> By the end of 1993, Hekmatyar and the former communist general and militia leader, <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum" title="Abdul Rashid Dostum">Abdul Rashid Dostum</a>, were involved in secret negotiations encouraged by Pakistan's secret <a href="/wiki/Inter-Services_Intelligence" title="Inter-Services Intelligence">Inter-Services Intelligence</a>, Iran's intelligence service, and Uzbekistan's <a href="/wiki/Islam_Karimov" title="Islam Karimov">Karimov</a> administration.<a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal_(2)-86">[84]</a><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated5-87">[85]</a> They planned a coup to oust the Rabbani administration and to attack Massoud in his northern areas.<a href="#cite_note-Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies-62">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-Roy_Gutman_(2)-65">[63]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="War_in_Kabul,_Taliban_arise_in_the_south_(1994)">War in Kabul, Taliban arise in the south (1994)</h4></div> In January 1994, Hekmatyar and Dostum mounted a bombardment campaign against the capital and attacked Massoud's core areas in the northeast.<a href="#cite_note-Library_of_Congress_Country_Studies-62">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-Roy_Gutman_(2)-65">[63]</a> <a href="/wiki/Amin_Saikal" title="Amin Saikal">Amin Saikal</a> writes, Hekmatyar had the following objectives in all his operations: <blockquote>The first was to make sure that Rabbani and Massoud were not allowed to consolidate power, build a credible administration, or expand their territorial control, so that the country would remain divided into small fiefdoms, run by various Muajhideen leaders and local warlords or a council of such elements, with only some of them allied to Kabul. The second was to ensure the Rabbani government acquired no capacity to dispense patronage, and to dissuade the Kabul population from giving more than limited support to the government. The third was to make Kabul an unsafe city for representatives of the international community and to prevent the Rabbani government from attracting the international support needed to begin the post-war reconstruction of Afghanistan and generate a level of economic activity which would enhance its credibility and popularity.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated7-88">[86]</a></blockquote> By mid-1994, Hekmatyar and Dostum were on the defensive in Kabul against Islamic State forces led by Massoud. Southern Afghanistan had been neither under the control of foreign-backed militias nor of the government in Kabul, but was ruled by local Pashtun leaders, such as <a href="/wiki/Gul_Agha_Sherzai" title="Gul Agha Sherzai">Gul Agha Sherzai</a>, and their militias. In 1994, the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> (a movement originating from <a href="/wiki/Jamiat_Ulema-e-Islam" title="Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam">Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam</a>-run religious schools for Afghan refugees in Pakistan) also developed in Afghanistan as a politico-religious force, reportedly in opposition to the <a href="/wiki/Tyranny" class="mw-redirect" title="Tyranny">tyranny</a> of the local governor.<a href="#cite_note-Matinuddin,_Kamal_1999_pp.25-89">[87]</a> When the Taliban took control of Kandahar in 1994, they forced the surrender of dozens of local Pashtun leaders who had presided over a situation of complete lawlessness and atrocities.<a href="#cite_note-Human_Rights_Watch_(5)-81">[79]</a> In 1994, the Taliban took power in several provinces in southern and central Afghanistan. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Taliban_siege_of_Kabul_(1995–1996)">Taliban siege of Kabul (1995–1996)</h4></div> Hizb-i Islami had bombarded Kabul from January 1994 until February 1995 when the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> expelled Hizb from its Charasiab headquarters, after which the Taliban relaunched the bombardment of Kabul and started to besiege the town.<a href="#cite_note-90">[88]</a> By early 1995, Massoud initiated a nationwide <a href="/wiki/Political_process" class="mw-redirect" title="Political process">political process</a> with the goal of national <a href="/wiki/Democratic_consolidation" title="Democratic consolidation">consolidation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Democratic_election" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic election">democratic elections</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="What is the relevance of the "three parts"? Who ("personalities") appeared in that conference (summoned by Massoud)? What 'agreement' was endeavoured? When and where was the conference? What did the "nationwide proces" consist of except that conference? What is meant with "national (democratic) consolidation" in a country totally ripped up by a multisided war? (June 2018)">clarification needed</a>][<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>]<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a> He arranged a conference in three parts uniting political and cultural personalities, governors, commanders, clergymen and representatives, in order to reach a lasting agreement.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="What is the relevance of the "three parts"? Who ("personalities") appeared in that conference (summoned by Massoud)? What 'agreement' was endeavoured? When and where was the conference? What did the "nationwide proces" consist of except that conference? What is meant with "national (democratic) consolidation" in a country totally ripped up by a multisided war? (June 2018)">clarification needed</a>][<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>][<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] Massoud's favourite for candidacy to the presidency was Dr. <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Yusuf_(prime_minister)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammad Yusuf (prime minister)">Mohammad Yusuf</a>, the first democratic prime minister under <a href="/wiki/Zahir_Shah" class="mw-redirect" title="Zahir Shah">Zahir Shah</a>, the former king. In the first meeting representatives from 15 different Afghan provinces met, in the second meeting there were already 25 provinces participating. Massoud also invited the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> to join the peace process wanting them to be a partner in providing stability to Afghanistan during such a process.<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a> But the Taliban, which had emerged over the course of 1994 in southern Afghanistan, were already at the doors of the capital city. Against the advice of his security personnel, Massoud went to talk to some Taliban leaders in Maidan Shar, Taliban territory. The Taliban declined to join the peace process leading toward general elections. When Massoud returned to Kabul unharmed, the Taliban leader who had received him as his guest paid with his life: he was killed by other senior Taliban for failing to assassinate Massoud while the possibility had presented itself.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>, placing Kabul under a two-year siege and bombardment campaign from early 1995 onward, in later years committed <a href="/wiki/Massacres" class="mw-redirect" title="Massacres">massacres</a> against civilians, compared by <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> observers to those that happened during the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Bosnia" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Bosnia">War in Bosnia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Newsday_2001-91">[89]</a><a href="#cite_note-papillonsartpalace.com-92">[90]</a> Neighboring Pakistan exerted strong influence over the Taliban. A publication with the George Washington University describes: "Initially, the Pakistanis supported ... Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... When Hekmatyar failed to deliver for Pakistan, the administration began to support a new movement of religious students known as the Taliban."<a href="#cite_note-The_National_Security_Archive-93">[91]</a> Many analysts like <a href="/wiki/Amin_Saikal" title="Amin Saikal">Amin Saikal</a> describe the Taliban as developing into a <a href="/wiki/Proxy_war" title="Proxy war">proxy</a> force for Pakistan's regional interests.<a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal-66">[64]</a> The Taliban started shelling Kabul in early 1995 but were defeated by forces of the Islamic State government under Ahmad Shah Massoud.<a href="#cite_note-amnesty.org-94">[92]</a> <a href="/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a>, referring to the Taliban offensive, wrote in a 1995 report: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">This is the first time in several months that Kabul civilians have become the targets of rocket attacks and shelling aimed at residential areas in the city.<a href="#cite_note-amnesty.org-94">[92]</a><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a>, 1995</cite></div></blockquote> The Taliban's early victories in 1994 were followed by a series of defeats that resulted in heavy losses.<a href="#cite_note-Human_Rights_Watch_(5)-81">[79]</a> The Taliban's first major offensive against the important western city of <a href="/wiki/Herat" title="Herat">Herat</a>, under the rule of Islamic state ally <a href="/wiki/Ismail_Khan" title="Ismail Khan">Ismail Khan</a>, in February 1995 was defeated when Massoud airlifted 2,000 of his own core forces from Kabul to help defend Herat.<a href="#cite_note-Ahmed_Rashid-95">[93]</a> <a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Rashid" title="Ahmed Rashid">Ahmed Rashid</a> writes: "The Taliban had now been decisively pushed back on two fronts by the government and their political and military leadership was in disarray. Their image as potential peacemakers was badly dented, for in the eyes of many Afghans they had become nothing more than just another warlord party."<a href="#cite_note-Ahmed_Rashid-95">[93]</a> International observers already speculated that the Taliban as a country-wide organization might have "run its course".<a href="#cite_note-Human_Rights_Watch-96">[94]</a> <a href="/wiki/Mullah_Omar" title="Mullah Omar">Mullah Omar</a> consolidated his control of the Taliban and with foreign help rebuilt and re-equipped his forces.<a href="#cite_note-Ahmed_Rashid_(3)-97">[95]</a> <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> increased its support to the Taliban.<a href="#cite_note-Amin_Saikal-66">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-George_Washington_University-98">[96]</a> Its military advisers oversaw the restructuring of Taliban forces. The country provided armored pick-up trucks and other military equipment.<a href="#cite_note-Human_Rights_Watch-96">[94]</a> Saudi Arabia provided the funding.<a href="#cite_note-Ahmed_Rashid_(7)-99">[97]</a> Furthermore, there was a massive influx of 25,000 new Taliban fighters, many of them recruited in Pakistan.<a href="#cite_note-Ahmed_Rashid_(3)-97">[95]</a> This enabled the Taliban to capture Herat to the west of Kabul in a surprise attack against the forces of Ismail Khan in September 1995. A nearly one-year siege and bombardment campaign against Kabul was again defeated by Massoud's forces.<a href="#cite_note-Ahmed_Rashid_(7)-99">[97]</a> Massoud and Rabbani meanwhile kept working on an internal Afghan peace process – successfully. By February 1996, all of Afghanistan's armed factions – except for the Taliban – had agreed to take part in the peace process and to set up a peace council to elect a new interim president.<a href="#cite_note-Ahmed_Rashid_(5)-100">[98]</a> Many Pashtun areas under Taliban control had representatives also advocating for a peace agreement with the Islamic State government.<a href="#cite_note-Ahmed_Rashid_(2)-101">[99]</a> But Taliban leader Mullah Omar and the Kandaharis surrounding him wanted to expand the war.<a href="#cite_note-Ahmed_Rashid_(2)-101">[99]</a> At that point the Taliban leadership and their foreign supporters decided they needed to act quickly before the government could consolidate the new understanding between the parties. The Taliban moved against Jalalabad, under the control of the Pashtun Jalalabad Shura, to the east of Kabul. Part of the Jalalabad Shura was bribed with millions of dollars by the Taliban's foreign sponsors, especially Saudi Arabia, to vacate their positions.<a href="#cite_note-Ahmed_Rashid_(4)-102">[100]</a> The Taliban's battle for Jalalabad was directed by Pakistani military advisers. Hundreds of Taliban crossed the Afghan-Pakistani border moving on Jalalabad from Pakistan and thereby suddenly placed to the east of Kabul.<a href="#cite_note-Ahmed_Rashid_(4)-102">[100]</a> This left the capital city Kabul "wide open"<a href="#cite_note-Ahmed_Rashid_(4)-102">[100]</a> to many sides as Ismail Khan had been defeated to the west, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar had vacated his positions to the south and the fall and surrender of Jalalabad had suddenly opened a new front to the east. At that point Massoud decided to conduct a strategic retreat through a northern corridor, according to Ahmed Rashid, "knowing he could not defend [Kabul] from attacks coming from all four points of the compass. Nor did he want to lose the support of Kabul's population by fighting for the city and causing more bloodshed."<a href="#cite_note-Ahmed_Rashid_(4)-102">[100]</a> On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul.<a href="#cite_note-103">[101]</a> The Taliban marched into Kabul on September 27, 1996, and established the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan_(1996%E2%80%932001)" title="Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)">Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan</a>. Massoud and his troops retreated to the northeast of Afghanistan which became the base for the still internationally recognized Islamic State of Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-104">[102]</a><a href="#cite_note-105">[103]</a><a href="#cite_note-106">[104]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Resistance_against_the_Taliban_(1996–2001)">Resistance against the Taliban (1996–2001)</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Civil_war_in_Afghanistan_(1996%E2%80%932001)" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil war in Afghanistan (1996–2001)">Civil war in Afghanistan (1996–2001)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1996afghan_(1).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/1996afghan_%281%29.png/220px-1996afghan_%281%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/1996afghan_%281%29.png/330px-1996afghan_%281%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/1996afghan_%281%29.png/440px-1996afghan_%281%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1698" data-file-height="1305" /></a><figcaption>Map of the situation in Afghanistan in late 1996; Massoud (red), <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum" title="Abdul Rashid Dostum">Dostum</a> (green), <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> (yellow)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="United_Front_against_the_Taliban">United Front against the Taliban</h4></div> Ahmad Shah Massoud created the <a href="/wiki/United_Islamic_Front_for_the_Salvation_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan">United Front</a> (Northern Alliance) against the Taliban advance. The United Front included forces and leaders from different political backgrounds as well as from all ethnicities of Afghanistan. From the Taliban conquest in 1996 until November 2001, the United Front controlled territory in which roughly 30% of Afghanistan's population was living, in provinces such as <a href="/wiki/Badakhshan_Province" title="Badakhshan Province">Badakhshan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kapisa_Province" title="Kapisa Province">Kapisa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Takhar_Province" title="Takhar Province">Takhar</a> and parts of <a href="/wiki/Parwan_Province" title="Parwan Province">Parwan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kunar_Province" title="Kunar Province">Kunar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nuristan_Province" title="Nuristan Province">Nuristan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laghman_Province" title="Laghman Province">Laghman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samangan_Province" title="Samangan Province">Samangan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kunduz_Province" title="Kunduz Province">Kunduz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gh%C5%8Dr_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Ghōr Province">Ghōr</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bamyan_Province" title="Bamyan Province">Bamyan</a>. Meanwhile, the Taliban imposed their repressive regime in the parts of Afghanistan under their control.<a href="#cite_note-Physicians_for_Human_Rights-107">[105]</a> Hundreds of thousands of people fled to Northern Alliance territory, Pakistan and Iran.<a href="#cite_note-NPR-108">[106]</a> Massoud's soldiers held some 1,200 Taliban prisoners in the Panjshir Valley, 122 of them foreign Muslims who had come to Afghanistan to fight a jihad.<a href="#cite_note-109">[107]</a> In 1998, after the defeat of Abdul Rashid Dostum's faction in Mazar-i-Sharif, Ahmad Shah Massoud remained the only main leader of the United Front in Afghanistan and the only leader who was able to defend vast parts of his area against the Taliban. Most major leaders including the Islamic State's President <a href="/wiki/Burhanuddin_Rabbani" title="Burhanuddin Rabbani">Burhanuddin Rabbani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum" title="Abdul Rashid Dostum">Abdul Rashid Dostum</a>, and others, were living in exile. During this time, commentators remarked that "The only thing standing in the way of future Taliban massacres is Ahmad Shah Massoud."<a href="#cite_note-National_Geographic-110">[108]</a><a href="#cite_note-111">[109]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Guerre_en_Afghanistan_(octobre_2001).PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Guerre_en_Afghanistan_%28octobre_2001%29.PNG/220px-Guerre_en_Afghanistan_%28octobre_2001%29.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Guerre_en_Afghanistan_%28octobre_2001%29.PNG/330px-Guerre_en_Afghanistan_%28octobre_2001%29.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Guerre_en_Afghanistan_%28octobre_2001%29.PNG 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="322" /></a><figcaption>Map of the situation in Afghanistan August 2001 – October 2001</figcaption></figure> Massoud stated that the Taliban repeatedly offered him a position of power to make him stop his resistance. He declined, declaring the differences between their ideology and his own pro-democratic outlook on society to be insurmountable.<a href="#cite_note-Interview-112">[110]</a> Massoud wanted to convince the Taliban to join a political process leading toward democratic elections in a foreseeable future.<a href="#cite_note-Interview-112">[110]</a> He also predicted that without assistance from Pakistan and external extremist groups, the Taliban would lose their hold on power.<a href="#cite_note-St._Petersburg_Times-113">[111]</a> In early 2001, the United Front employed a new strategy of local military pressure and global political appeals.<a href="#cite_note-Steve_Coll:_Ghost_Wars-114">[112]</a> Resentment was increasingly gathering against Taliban rule from the bottom of Afghan society including the Pashtun areas.<a href="#cite_note-Steve_Coll:_Ghost_Wars-114">[112]</a> At the same time, Massoud was very wary not to revive the failed Kabul government of the early 1990s.<a href="#cite_note-Steve_Coll:_Ghost_Wars-114">[112]</a> Already in 1999 the United Front leadership ordered the training of police forces specifically to keep order and protect the civilian population in case the United Front would be successful.<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated2-115">[113]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Cross-factional_negotiations">Cross-factional negotiations</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Massoud_and_Qadir_2.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/48/Massoud_and_Qadir_2.PNG/220px-Massoud_and_Qadir_2.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/48/Massoud_and_Qadir_2.PNG/330px-Massoud_and_Qadir_2.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/Massoud_and_Qadir_2.PNG 2x" data-file-width="343" data-file-height="239" /></a><figcaption>Ahmad Shah Massoud (right) with Pashtun anti-Taliban leader <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Qadir_(Afghan_leader)" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Qadir (Afghan leader)">Abdul Qadir</a> (left) in November 2000</figcaption></figure> From 1999 onward, a renewed process was set into motion by the Tajik Ahmad Shah Massoud and the Pashtun <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Haq_(Afghan_leader)" title="Abdul Haq (Afghan leader)">Abdul Haq</a> to unite all the ethnicities of Afghanistan. Massoud united the Tajiks, Hazara and Uzbeks as well as several Pashtun commanders under his United Front. Besides meeting with Pashtun tribal leaders and acting as a point of reference, Abdul Haq received increasing numbers of Pashtun Taliban themselves who were secretly approaching him.<a href="#cite_note-PeterTomsen-116">[114]</a> Some commanders who had worked for the Taliban military apparatus agreed to the plan to topple the Taliban regime<a href="#cite_note-Edwards-117">[115]</a> as the Taliban lost support even among the Pashtuns. Senior diplomat and Afghanistan expert <a href="/wiki/Peter_Tomsen" title="Peter Tomsen">Peter Tomsen</a> wrote that "[t]he 'Lion of Kabul' [Abdul Haq] and the 'Lion of Panjshir' [Ahmad Shah Massoud] would make a formidable anti-Taliban team if they combined forces. Haq, Massoud, and Karzai, Afghanistan's three leading moderates, could transcend the Pashtun – non-Pashtun, north-south divide."<a href="#cite_note-PeterTomsen2-118">[116]</a> <a href="/wiki/Steve_Coll" title="Steve Coll">Steve Coll</a> referred to this plan as a "grand Pashtun-Tajik alliance".<a href="#cite_note-autogenerated10-119">[117]</a> The senior Hazara and Uzbek leaders took part in the process just like later Afghan president <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a>. They agreed to work under the banner of the exiled Afghan king <a href="/wiki/Zahir_Shah" class="mw-redirect" title="Zahir Shah">Zahir Shah</a> in Rome. In November 2000, leaders from all ethnic groups were brought together in Massoud's headquarters in northern Afghanistan, travelling from other parts of Afghanistan, Europe, the United States, Pakistan and India to discuss a <a href="/wiki/Loya_Jirga" class="mw-redirect" title="Loya Jirga">Loya Jirga</a> for a settlement of Afghanistan's problems and to discuss the establishment of a post-Taliban government.<a href="#cite_note-Corbis-120">[118]</a><a href="#cite_note-Grad_65-121">[119]</a> In September 2001, an international official who met with representatives of the alliance remarked, "It's crazy that you have this today ... Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazara ... They were all ready to buy in to the process".<a href="#cite_note-The_New_Statesman-122">[120]</a> In early 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud with leaders from all ethnicities of Afghanistan addressed the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a> in <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a>, asking the international community to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-EU_Parliament_(2)-123">[121]</a> He stated that the Taliban and <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> had introduced "a very wrong perception of <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>" and that without the support of Pakistan and Bin Laden the Taliban would not be able to sustain their military campaign for up to a year.<a href="#cite_note-EU_Parliament-124">[122]</a> On that visit to Europe, he also warned the U.S. about Bin Laden.<a href="#cite_note-nineeleven-125">[123]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_areas_of_Massoud">The areas of Massoud</h4></div> Life in the areas under direct control of Massoud was different from the life in the areas under Taliban or Dostum's control. In contrast to the time of chaos in which all structures had collapsed in Kabul, Massoud was able to control most of the troops under his direct command well during the period starting in late 1996.<a href="#cite_note-Girardet-126">[124]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">full citation needed</a>] Massoud always controlled the <a href="/wiki/Panjshir_Province" title="Panjshir Province">Panjshir</a>, <a href="/wiki/Takhar_Province" title="Takhar Province">Takhar</a>, parts of <a href="/wiki/Parwan" class="mw-redirect" title="Parwan">Parwan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Badakhshan" title="Badakhshan">Badakhshan</a> during the war. Some other provinces (notably <a href="/wiki/Kunduz" title="Kunduz">Kunduz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baghlan" title="Baghlan">Baghlan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nuristan" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuristan">Nuristan</a> and the north of <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>) were captured by his forces from the Taliban and lost again from time to time as the frontlines varied. Massoud created democratic institutions which were structured into several committees: political, health, education and economic.<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a> Still, many people came to him personally when they had a dispute or problem and asked him to solve their problems.<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a> In September 2000, Massoud signed the Declaration of the Essential Rights of Afghan Women drafted by Afghan women. The declaration established gender equality in front of the law and the right of women to political participation, education, work, freedom of movement and speech. In the areas of Massoud, women and girls did not have to wear the Afghan burqa by law. They were allowed to work and to go to school. Although it was a time of war, girls' schools were operating in some districts. In at least two known instances, Massoud personally intervened against cases of forced marriage in favour of the women to make their own choice.<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a> While it was Massoud's stated personal conviction that men and women are equal and should enjoy the same rights, he also had to deal with Afghan traditions which he said would need a generation or more to overcome. In his opinion, that could only be achieved through education.<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a> Author <a href="/wiki/Pepe_Escobar" title="Pepe Escobar">Pepe Escobar</a> wrote in <a href="/wiki/Asia_Times" title="Asia Times">Asia Times</a>:<a href="#cite_note-Escobar2001-127">[125]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Massoud is adamant that in Afghanistan women have suffered oppression for generations. He says that "the cultural environment of the country suffocates women. But the Taliban exacerbate this with oppression." His most ambitious project is to shatter this cultural prejudice and so give more space, freedom and equality to women – they would have the same rights as men.<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Pepe Escobar, in 'Massoud: From Warrior to Statesman'</cite></div></blockquote> Humayun Tandar, who took part as an Afghan diplomat in the 2001 <a href="/wiki/International_Conference_on_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="International Conference on Afghanistan">International Conference on Afghanistan</a> in Bonn, said that "strictures of language, ethnicity, region were [also] stifling for Massoud. That is why ... he wanted to create a unity which could surpass the situation in which we found ourselves and still find ourselves to this day."<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a> This applied also to strictures of religion. Jean-José Puig describes how Massoud often led prayers before a meal or at times asked his fellow Muslims to lead the prayer but also did not hesitate to ask the Jewish <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton</a> Professor Michael Barry or his Christian friend Jean-José Puig: "Jean-José, we believe in the same God. Please, tell us the prayer before lunch or dinner in your own language."<a href="#cite_note-Grad2-30">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="International_relations">International relations</h4></div> U.S. policy regarding Massoud, the Taliban and Afghanistan remained ambiguous and differed between the various U.S. government agencies. In 1997, U.S. State Department's <a href="/wiki/Robin_Raphel" title="Robin Raphel">Robin Raphel</a> suggested to Massoud he should surrender to the Taliban. He soundly rejected the proposal.<a href="#cite_note-128">[126]</a> At one point in the war, in 1997, two top foreign policy officials in the Clinton administration flew to northern Afghanistan in an attempt to convince Massoud not to take advantage of a strategic opportunity to make crucial gains against the Taliban.<a href="#cite_note-U.S._Congressman_Dana_Rohrabacher-129">[127]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">unreliable source?</a>] In 1998, a U.S. <a href="/wiki/Defense_Intelligence_Agency" title="Defense Intelligence Agency">Defense Intelligence Agency</a> analyst, Julie Sirrs, visited Massoud's territories privately, having previously been denied official permission to do so by her agency. She reported that Massoud had conveyed warnings about strengthened ties between the Taliban and foreign Islamist terrorists. Returning home, she was sacked from her agency for insubordination, because at that time the U.S. administration had no trust in Massoud.<a href="#cite_note-U.S._Congressman_Dana_Rohrabacher-129">[127]</a> In the meantime, the only collaboration between Massoud and another U.S. intelligence service, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), consisted of an effort to trace <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a> following the <a href="/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bombings" title="1998 United States embassy bombings">1998 embassy bombings</a>.<a href="#cite_note-risen-130">[128]</a> The U.S. and the European Union provided no support to Massoud for the fight against the Taliban. A change of policy, lobbied for by CIA officers on the ground who had visited the area of Massoud, regarding support to Massoud, was underway in the course of 2001. According to Steve Coll's book Ghost Wars<a href="#cite_note-Steve_Coll:_Ghost_Wars-114">[112]</a> (who won the 2005 <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Nonfiction" title="Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction">Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction</a>): <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">The CIA officers admired Massoud greatly. They saw him as a <a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a> figure, a great actor on history's stage. Massoud was a poet, a military genius, a religious man, and a leader of enormous courage who defied death and accepted its inevitability, they thought. ... In his house there were thousands of books: Persian poetry, histories of the Afghan war in multiple languages, biographies of other military and guerilla leaders. In their meetings Massoud wove sophisticated, measured references to Afghan history and global politics into his arguments. He was quiet, forceful, reserved, and full of dignity, but also light in spirit. The CIA team had gone into the Panshjir as unabashed admirers of Massoud. Now their convictions deepened.<a href="#cite_note-Steve_Coll:_Ghost_Wars-114">[112]</a> <div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Steve_Coll" title="Steve Coll">Steve Coll</a>, in Ghost Wars</cite></div></blockquote> U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher also recalled: <blockquote>[B]etween Bush's inauguration and 9/11, I met with the new national security staff on 3 occasions, including one meeting with Condoleezza Rice to discuss Afghanistan. There were, in fact, signs noted in an overview story in The Washington Post about a month ago that some steps were being made to break away from the previous administration's Afghan policy.<a href="#cite_note-U.S._Congressman_Dana_Rohrabacher-129">[127]</a></blockquote> CIA lawyers, working with officers in the Near East Division and Counterterrorist Center, began to draft a formal, legal presidential finding for Bush's signature authorizing a new covert action program in Afghanistan, the first in a decade that sought to influence the course of the Afghan war in favour of Massoud.<a href="#cite_note-Steve_Coll:_Ghost_Wars-114">[112]</a> This change in policy was finalized in August 2001 when it was too late. After Pakistan had funded, directed and supported the Taliban's rise to power in Afghanistan, Massoud and the United Front received some assistance from India.<a href="#cite_note-131">[129]</a> The assistance provided by India was extensive, including uniforms, ordnance, mortars, small armaments, refurbished Kalashnikovs, combat and winter clothes, as well as funds.<a href="#cite_note-132">[130]</a> India was particularly concerned about Pakistan's Taliban strategy and the Islamic militancy in its neighborhood; it provided U.S.$70 million in aid including two <a href="/wiki/Mil_Mi-17" title="Mil Mi-17">Mi-17</a> helicopters, three additional helicopters in 2000 and US$8 million worth of high-altitude equipment in 2001.<a href="#cite_note-133">[131]</a> Also In the 1990s, India had run a field hospital at Farkor on the Tajik-Afghan border to treat wounded fighters from the then Northern Alliance that was battling the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. It was at the very same hospital that the Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masood was pronounced dead after being assassinated just two days before the 9/11 terror strikes in 2001.<a href="#cite_note-timesofindia.indiatimes.com-18">[16]</a> Furthermore, the alliance supposedly also received minor aid from <a href="/wiki/Tajikistan" title="Tajikistan">Tajikistan</a>, Russia and <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> because of their opposition to the Taliban and the Pakistani control over the Taliban's Emirate. Their support remained limited to the most needed things. Meanwhile, Pakistan engaged up to 28,000 Pakistani nationals and regular Pakistani army troops to fight alongside the Taliban and Al Qaeda forces against Massoud.<a href="#cite_note-National_Geographic-110">[108]</a><a href="#cite_note-History_Commons-134">[132]</a> In April 2001, the president of the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nicole_Fontaine" title="Nicole Fontaine">Nicole Fontaine</a> (who called Massoud the "pole of liberty in Afghanistan"), invited Massoud with the support of French and Belgian politicians to address the European Parliament in <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a>, Belgium. In his speech, he asked for humanitarian aid for the people of Afghanistan. Massoud further went on to warn that his intelligence agents had gained limited knowledge about a large-scale terrorist attack on U.S. soil being imminent.<a href="#cite_note-135">[133]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Assassination">Assassination</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Ahmad_Shah_Massoud" title="Assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud">Assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Massoud_Memorial.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Massoud_Memorial.jpg/220px-Massoud_Memorial.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Massoud_Memorial.jpg/330px-Massoud_Memorial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Massoud_Memorial.jpg/440px-Massoud_Memorial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="538" data-file-height="357" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Afghan_National_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan National Army">Afghan National Army</a> honouring Massoud's resistance at his tomb and memorial in September 2010</figcaption></figure> Massoud, then aged 48, was the target of an <a href="/wiki/Assassination" title="Assassination">assassination</a> plot in <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Bahauddin_District" title="Khwaja Bahauddin District">Khwājah Bahā ud Dīn</a> (Khvājeh Bahāuḏḏīn<a href="#cite_note-136">[134]</a>), <a href="/wiki/Takhar_Province" title="Takhar Province">Takhar Province</a> in northeastern Afghanistan on September 9, 2001.<a href="#cite_note-137">[135]</a><a href="#cite_note-138">[136]</a> The attackers' names were alternately given as Dahmane Abd al-Sattar, husband of <a href="/wiki/Malika_El_Aroud" title="Malika El Aroud">Malika El Aroud</a>, and Bouraoui el-Ouaer; or 34-year-old Karim Touzani and 26-year-old Kacem Bakkali.<a href="#cite_note-139">[137]</a> The attackers claimed to be <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgians</a> originally from <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a>. According to <a href="/wiki/Le_Monde" title="Le Monde">Le Monde</a> they transited through the municipality of <a href="/wiki/Molenbeek" class="mw-redirect" title="Molenbeek">Molenbeek</a>.<a href="#cite_note-140">[138]</a> Their passports turned out to be stolen and their nationality was later determined to be <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisian</a>. Waiting for almost three weeks (during which they also interviewed <a href="/wiki/Burhanuddin_Rabbani" title="Burhanuddin Rabbani">Burhanuddin Rabbani</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rasul_Sayyaf" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Rasul Sayyaf">Abdul Rasul Sayyaf</a>) for an interview opportunity, on September 8, 2001, an aide to Massoud recalls the would-be suicide attackers "were so worried" and threatened to leave if the interview did not happen in the next 24 hours (until September 10, 2001). They were finally granted an interview. During the interview, they set off a bomb composed of explosives hidden in the camera and in a battery-pack belt. Massoud died in a helicopter that was taking him to an <a href="/wiki/Farkhor_Air_Base" title="Farkhor Air Base">Indian military field hospital</a> at <a href="/wiki/Farkhor" title="Farkhor">Farkhor</a> in nearby Tajikistan.<a href="#cite_note-timesofindia.indiatimes.com-18">[16]</a> The explosion also killed Mohammed Asim Suhail, a United Front official, while <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Fahim_Dashty" title="Mohammad Fahim Dashty">Mohammad Fahim Dashty</a> and <a href="/wiki/Massoud_Khalili" class="mw-redirect" title="Massoud Khalili">Massoud Khalili</a> were injured. One of the suicide attackers, Bouraoui, was killed by the explosion, while Dahmane Abd al-Sattar was captured and shot while trying to escape. Despite initial denials by the United Front, news of Massoud's death was reported almost immediately, appearing on the BBC, and in European and North American newspapers on September 10, 2001. On September 16, the United Front officially announced that Massoud had died of injuries in the suicide attack. Massoud was buried in his home village of <a href="/wiki/Bazarak,_Panjshir" class="mw-redirect" title="Bazarak, Panjshir">Bazarak</a> in the Panjshir Valley.<a href="#cite_note-141">[139]</a> The funeral, although in a remote rural area, was attended by hundreds of thousands of people. Massoud had survived assassination attempts over a period of 26 years, including attempts made by al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the Pakistani ISI and before them the Soviet KGB, the Afghan communist KHAD and Hekmatyar. The first attempt on Massoud's life was carried out by Hekmatyar and two Pakistani ISI agents in 1975 when Massoud was 22 years old.<a href="#cite_note-Roy_Gutman-64">[62]</a> In early 2001, al-Qaeda would-be assassins were captured by Massoud's forces while trying to enter his territory.<a href="#cite_note-Steve_Coll:_Ghost_Wars-114">[112]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Connection_to_September_11,_2001">Connection to September 11, 2001</h3></div> The assassination of Massoud is considered to have a strong connection to the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a> in 2001 on U.S. soil, which killed nearly 3,000 people. It appeared to have been the major terrorist attack which Massoud had warned against in his speech to the European Parliament several months earlier. <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a>'s motive for the assassination is believed to have been to secure the Taliban's support of <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a> after the planned attacks. By eliminating Massoud, it was expected that the remaining anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan would collapse, allowing the Taliban to solidify their control over the country. Bin Laden thought that this, in turn, would make the Taliban indebted to him, and he believed their support would be crucial for his planned war against the United States.<a href="#cite_note-142">[140]</a> In late 2001, a computer was seized that was stolen from an office used by al-Qaeda immediately after the fall of Kabul in November. This computer was mainly used by <a href="/wiki/Aiman_al-Zawahri" class="mw-redirect" title="Aiman al-Zawahri">Aiman al-Zawahri</a> and contained the letter with the interview request for Massoud.<a href="#cite_note-143">[141]</a><a href="#cite_note-144">[142]</a> The two assassins had completed military training in training camps in Afghanistan at the end of 2000 and were selected for the suicide mission in the spring or early summer of the following year.<a href="#cite_note-145">[143]</a> The Afghan publicist <a href="/wiki/Waheed_Muzhda" title="Waheed Muzhda">Waheed Muzhda</a>, who worked for the Taliban in the Foreign Ministry, confirmed the two assassins met with al-Qaeda officials in Kandahar and bin Laden and al-Zawahri saw them off when they left.<a href="#cite_note-146">[144]</a> Following the assassination, bin Laden had an emissary deliver Dahmane Abd al-Sattar's widow a letter with $500 in an envelope to settle a debt.<a href="#cite_note-147">[145]</a> An al-Qaeda magazine in Saudi Arabia later published a biography of Youssef al-Aayyiri, who headed al-Qaeda's operations in Saudi Arabia from 2002, which described al-Qaeda's involvement in Massoud's assassination. Osama bin Laden commissioned the assassination attempt to appease the Taliban because of the imminent terrorist attacks in the US, which would cause serious problems for the Taliban.<a href="#cite_note-148">[146]</a> The Taliban denied any involvement in Massoud's assassination, and it is very unlikely that they were privy to the assassination plans. There were a few minor attacks by the Taliban after the attack, but no major offensive.<a href="#cite_note-149">[147]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Investigative_commission">Investigative commission</h3></div> In April 2003, the <a href="/wiki/Karzai_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Karzai administration">Karzai administration</a> created a commission to investigate the assassination of Massoud.<a href="#cite_note-150">[148]</a> In 2003, French investigators and the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">FBI</a> were able to trace the provenance of the camera used in the assassination, which had been stolen in France some time earlier.<a href="#cite_note-151">[149]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_Hero_of_Afghanistan">National Hero of Afghanistan</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tomb_site_of_Ahmad_Shah_Massoud_in_Panjshir.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Tomb_site_of_Ahmad_Shah_Massoud_in_Panjshir.jpg/220px-Tomb_site_of_Ahmad_Shah_Massoud_in_Panjshir.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Tomb_site_of_Ahmad_Shah_Massoud_in_Panjshir.jpg/330px-Tomb_site_of_Ahmad_Shah_Massoud_in_Panjshir.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Tomb_site_of_Ahmad_Shah_Massoud_in_Panjshir.jpg/440px-Tomb_site_of_Ahmad_Shah_Massoud_in_Panjshir.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3560" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>Massoud's tomb in Panjshir, 2011.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Massoud_cirkle_-_panoramio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Massoud_cirkle_-_panoramio.jpg/220px-Massoud_cirkle_-_panoramio.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Massoud_cirkle_-_panoramio.jpg/330px-Massoud_cirkle_-_panoramio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Massoud_cirkle_-_panoramio.jpg/440px-Massoud_cirkle_-_panoramio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>The Massoud Circle in Kabul, 2006</figcaption></figure> Massoud was the only chief Afghan leader who never left Afghanistan in the fight against the Soviet Union and later in the fight against the Taliban Emirate.<a href="#cite_note-CNN-152">[150]</a> In the areas under his direct control, such as Panjshir, some parts of Parwan and Takhar, Massoud established democratic institutions. One refugee who cramped his family of 27 into an old jeep to flee from the Taliban to the area of Massoud described Massoud's territory in 1997 as "the last tolerant corner of Afghanistan".<a href="#cite_note-Journeyman_Picture/ABC_Australia-153">[151]</a> <ul><li>In 2001, the Afghan interim government under president <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a> officially awarded Massoud the title of "Hero of the Afghan Nation".<a href="#cite_note-CNN-152">[150]</a><a href="#cite_note-Eurasianet.org-154">[152]</a> One analyst in 2004 said:</li></ul> <blockquote>One man holds a greater political punch than all 18 living [Afghan] presidential candidates combined. Though already dead for three years.... Since his death on September 9, 2001 at the hands of two al Qaeda-linked Islamic radicals, Massoud has been transformed from mujahedin to national hero – if not saint. Pictures of Massoud, the Afghan mujahedin who battled the Soviets, other warlords, and the Taliban for more than 20 years, vastly outnumber those of any other Afghan including those of Karzai.<a href="#cite_note-Eurasianet.org-154">[152]</a></blockquote> Today Panjshir, the home of Massoud, <blockquote>is arguably the most peaceful place in the entire country. A small US military reconstruction team is based here, but there are none of the signs of foreign occupation that exist elsewhere. Even Afghan soldiers are few and far between. Instead, the people like to boast about how they keep their own security.<a href="#cite_note-The_National-155">[153]</a></blockquote> <ul><li>The Massoud Foundation was established in 2003 to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghans through economic and social programs that include business development, reconstruction and infrastructure improvements, and education programs. It promotes justice, gender equality, fair government, and human rights.<a href="#cite_note-t934-156">[154]</a></li> <li>A major road in Kabul was named Great Massoud Road.<a href="#cite_note-Nugent_2002_h168-157">[155]</a></li> <li>A monument to Massoud was installed outside the US Embassy.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li> <li>A street in New Delhi, India, is named after Ahmad Shah Massoud. It is the first time that such an honour has been extended to a leader from that country as part of close ties between Afghanistan and India.<a href="#cite_note-Hindustan_Times_2007_d470-158">[156]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magpul_Industries#Magpul_Massoud" class="mw-redirect" title="Magpul Industries">Magpul Massoud</a> was a <a href="/wiki/7.62%C3%9751mm_NATO" title="7.62×51mm NATO">7.62 NATO</a> rifle produced by <a href="/wiki/Magpul_Industries" class="mw-redirect" title="Magpul Industries">Magpul</a> which was named after himself.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</li></ul> The road near the Afghanistan Embassy is a "symbol of ties" that binds the two nations that have always "enjoyed excellent relations".[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] His friend <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Abdullah" title="Abdullah Abdullah">Abdullah Abdullah</a> said that Massoud was different from the other guerilla leaders. "He is a hero who led a clear struggle for the values of the people".<a href="#cite_note-aljazeera.com-159">[157]</a> In a 2001 mourning ceremony at Moscow to honour the memory of Ahmad Shah Massoud, one-time foe <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Qadir_(Afghan_communist)" title="Abdul Qadir (Afghan communist)">Colonel Abdul Qadir</a> stated: "Though Massoud and I used to be enemies, I am sure he deserves great respect as an outstanding military leader and, first of all, as a patriot of his country". <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lion_of_Panjshir">Lion of Panjshir</h3></div> Massoud's byname, "Lion of Panjshir" (<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: شیر پنجشیر, "Shir-e-Panjshir"), earned for his role during the Soviet occupation, is a rhyming play on words in <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>, as the name of the valley means "five lions". <a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a> referred to Massoud as "The Afghan Who Won the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>",<a href="#cite_note-Charlie_Rose-160">[158]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">unreliable source?</a>] referring to the global significance of the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan for the subsequent collapse of the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Eastern Bloc</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Honors_outside_Afghanistan">Honors outside Afghanistan</h3></div> In 2007, the government of India decided to name a road in <a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Chanakyapuri" title="Chanakyapuri">Chanakyapuri</a> district after Massoud.<a href="#cite_note-161">[159]</a><a href="#cite_note-162">[160]</a> In February 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Paris" title="Council of Paris">Council of Paris</a> in France honored Massoud by installing a <a href="/wiki/Commemorative_plaque" title="Commemorative plaque">plaque</a> in the <a href="/wiki/8th_arrondissement_of_Paris" title="8th arrondissement of Paris">8th arrondissement of Paris</a>. The decision reflected Massoud's unique connections with France.<a href="#cite_note-163">[161]</a><a href="#cite_note-plaqueeuronews-24">[22]</a> In March 2021, the Mayor of Paris named a pathway in the <a href="/wiki/Champs-%C3%89lys%C3%A9es" title="Champs-Élysées">Champs-Élysées</a> gardens after Massoud. The ceremony was attended by Massoud's son and former president Hamid Karzai.<a href="#cite_note-164">[162]</a> <dl><dt>Civilian orders</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tajikistan" title="Tajikistan">Tajikistan</a>: <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Ismoili_Somoni" title="Order of Ismoili Somoni">Order of Ismoili Somoni</a> – posthumously awarded on September 2, 2021.<a href="#cite_note-tajorder-25">[23]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Views_on_Pakistan_and_potential_al-Qaeda_attacks">Views on Pakistan and potential al-Qaeda attacks</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Russian_Veterans_visiting_Masoud%E2%80%99s_Tomb_(2009).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Russian_Veterans_visiting_Masoud%E2%80%99s_Tomb_%282009%29.jpg/220px-Russian_Veterans_visiting_Masoud%E2%80%99s_Tomb_%282009%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Russian_Veterans_visiting_Masoud%E2%80%99s_Tomb_%282009%29.jpg/330px-Russian_Veterans_visiting_Masoud%E2%80%99s_Tomb_%282009%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Russian_Veterans_visiting_Masoud%E2%80%99s_Tomb_%282009%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="420" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>Group of former Soviet military men, led by Col. <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Khabarov" title="Leonid Khabarov">Leonid Khabarov</a> (center,) standing by Massoud's Tomb, commemorating his memory (2009)</figcaption></figure> Although Pakistan were supporting the mujahideen groups during the Soviet-Afghan War, Ahmad Shah Massoud increasingly distrusted the Pakistanis and eventually kept his distance from them.<a href="#cite_note-165">[163]</a> In a 1999 interview, Massoud says "They [Pakistan] are trying to turn us into a colony. Without them there would be no war".<a href="#cite_note-166">[164]</a> In the spring 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud addressed the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a> in Brussels, saying that Pakistan was behind the situation in Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-EU_Parliament-124">[122]</a> He also said that he believed that, without the support of Pakistan, Osama bin Laden, and Saudi Arabia, the Taliban would not be able to sustain their military campaign for up to a year. He said the Afghan population was ready to rise against them.<a href="#cite_note-EU_Parliament-124">[122]</a> Addressing the United States specifically, he warned that should the U.S. not work for peace in Afghanistan and put pressure on Pakistan to cease their support to the Taliban, the problems of Afghanistan would soon become the problems of the U.S. and the world.<a href="#cite_note-EU_Parliament-124">[122]</a><a href="#cite_note-Afghanistan_Revealed-167">[165]</a> Declassified <a href="/wiki/Defense_Intelligence_Agency" title="Defense Intelligence Agency">Defense Intelligence Agency</a> (DIA) documents from November 2001 show that Massoud had gained "limited knowledge... regarding the intentions of <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> to perform a terrorist act against the U.S. on a scale larger than the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania."<a href="#cite_note-nineeleven-125">[123]</a><a href="#cite_note-gwu.edu-168">[166]</a> They noted that he warned about such attacks.<a href="#cite_note-nineeleven-125">[123]</a><a href="#cite_note-gwu.edu-168">[166]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Succession_and_resistance_to_Taliban_by_his_son">Succession and resistance to Taliban by his son</h3></div> In September 2019, his son <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Massoud" title="Ahmad Massoud">Ahmad Massoud</a> was declared as his successor.<a href="#cite_note-169">[167]</a> Following the <a href="/wiki/2021_Taliban_offensive" title="2021 Taliban offensive">2021 Taliban offensive</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">Fall of Kabul</a>, Massoud allied with self-proclaimed acting president <a href="/wiki/Amrullah_Saleh" title="Amrullah Saleh">Amrullah Saleh</a> and established the <a href="/wiki/National_Resistance_Front_of_Afghanistan" title="National Resistance Front of Afghanistan">National Resistance Front of Afghanistan</a> to the Taliban in the Panjshir Valley. Massoud called for West's support to resist the Taliban.<a href="#cite_note-170">[168]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Massoud%27s_cars._Panjshir_Valley._Afghanistan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Massoud%27s_cars._Panjshir_Valley._Afghanistan.jpg/220px-Massoud%27s_cars._Panjshir_Valley._Afghanistan.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Massoud%27s_cars._Panjshir_Valley._Afghanistan.jpg/330px-Massoud%27s_cars._Panjshir_Valley._Afghanistan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Massoud%27s_cars._Panjshir_Valley._Afghanistan.jpg/440px-Massoud%27s_cars._Panjshir_Valley._Afghanistan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1944" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Massoud's private vehicles, parked in Panjshir (pictured 2010)</figcaption></figure> Massoud was married to Sediqa Massoud. They had one son, <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Massoud" title="Ahmad Massoud">Ahmad Massoud</a> (born in 1989) and five daughters (Fatima born in 1992, Mariam born in 1993, Ayesha born in 1995, Zohra born in 1996 and Nasrine born in 1998). In 2005 Sediqa Massoud published a personal account on her life with Massoud (co-authored by two women's rights activists and friends of Sediqa Massoud, <a href="/wiki/Ch%C3%A9k%C3%A9ba_Hachemi" title="Chékéba Hachemi">Chékéba Hachemi</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Marie-Francoise_Colombani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marie-Francoise Colombani (page does not exist)">Marie-Francoise Colombani</a> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Fran%C3%A7oise_Colombani" class="extiw" title="fr:Marie-Françoise Colombani">fr</a>]) called "Pour l'amour de Massoud" (For the love of Massoud), in which she describes a decent and loving husband.<a href="#cite_note-171">[169]</a> Massoud liked reading and had a library of 3,000 books at his home in Panjshir.<a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-7">[5]</a> He used to read the works of revolutionaries <a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a> and <a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>, and was a great admirer of <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">Charles de Gaulle</a>, founder of the <a href="/wiki/French_Fifth_Republic" title="French Fifth Republic">French Fifth Republic</a>.<a href="#cite_note-telegraph.co.uk-16">[14]</a> Massoud said his favorite author was <a href="/wiki/Victor_Hugo" title="Victor Hugo">Victor Hugo</a><a href="#cite_note-172">[170]</a> and he was also a fan of classical <a href="/wiki/Persian_poetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian poetry">Persian poetry</a>, including the works of <a href="/wiki/Abdul-Q%C4%81dir_Bedil" title="Abdul-Qādir Bedil">Bidel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hafez" title="Hafez">Hafez</a>.<a href="#cite_note-aljazeera.com-159">[157]</a> He was keen at playing <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chess" title="Chess">chess</a>.<a href="#cite_note-173">[171]</a> Massoud's reputation for fearlessness is illustrated by a story about him told in Afghanistan, which cannot be confirmed. Once, while inspecting the front lines with a deputy, Massoud's driver had become lost and driven into the middle of a Taliban encampment. In tremendous peril, since he was recognized immediately, Massoud demanded to see the Taliban commander, making polite conversation for just long enough to bluff that he had arrived intentionally and not accidentally. The confused Taliban allowed him to leave.<a href="#cite_note-174">[172]</a><a href="#cite_note-175">[173]</a> Massoud's family since his death have had a great deal of prestige in the politics of Afghanistan. One of his six brothers, <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Zia_Massoud" title="Ahmad Zia Massoud">Ahmad Zia Massoud</a>, was the Vice President of Afghanistan from 2004 until 2009 under the first democratically elected government of Afghanistan. Unsuccessful attempts have been made on the life of Ahmad Zia Massoud in 2004 and late 2009. The <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> reported that eight Afghans died in the attempt on Ahmad Zia Massoud's life. Ahmad Zia Massoud leads the <a href="/wiki/National_Front_of_Afghanistan" title="National Front of Afghanistan">National Front of Afghanistan</a> (a United Front group). Another brother, <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Wali_Massoud" title="Ahmad Wali Massoud">Ahmad Wali Massoud</a>, was Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2002 to 2006.<a href="#cite_note-176">[174]</a> He was a member of <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Abdullah" title="Abdullah Abdullah">Abdullah Abdullah</a>'s <a href="/wiki/National_Coalition_of_Afghanistan" title="National Coalition of Afghanistan">National Coalition of Afghanistan</a> (another United Front group). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_literature">In literature</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a>. 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href="/wiki/Olivier_Weber" title="Olivier Weber">Olivier Weber</a>'s novel Massoud's Confession, about the Islam of Enlightenment and the need to reform religious practices.</li> <li>Massoud is played by <a href="/wiki/Mido_Hamada" title="Mido Hamada">Mido Hamada</a> in the 2006 miniseries <a href="/wiki/The_Path_to_9/11" title="The Path to 9/11">The Path to 9/11</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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Tauris, 352pp ("One of the "Five Best" Books on Afghanistan" – The Wall Street Journal)</li> <li>Roy Gutman (2008): How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban and the Hijacking of Afghanistan; United States Institute of Peace Press, 304pp</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Coll" title="Steve Coll">Coll, Steve</a> (2004): <a href="/wiki/Ghost_Wars" title="Ghost Wars">Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 9, 2001</a>; Penguin Press, 695pp, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-59420-007-6" title="Special:BookSources/1-59420-007-6">1-59420-007-6</a>. (won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction)</li> <li>Stephen Tanner: Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban</li> <li>Christophe de Ponfilly (2001): Massoud l'Afghan; Gallimard, 437pp (in French)</li> <li>Gary W. Bowersox (2004): The Gem Hunter-True Adventures of an American in Afghanistan; Geovision, Inc. (January 22, 2004), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0974732312" title="Special:BookSources/978-0974732312">978-0974732312</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olivier_Weber" title="Olivier Weber">Olivier Weber</a> (2001): Le Faucon afghan; Robert Laffont</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olivier_Weber" title="Olivier Weber">Olivier Weber</a> (2001, with Reza): Afghan eternities; Le Chene/ UNESCO</li> <li>Gary C. Schroen (2005): 'First In' An Insiders Account of How The CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan; New York: Presidio Press/Ballantine Books, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-89141-872-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-89141-872-6">978-0-89141-872-6</a>.</li> <li>Peter Bergen: Holy War, Inc.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Rashid" title="Ahmed Rashid">Ahmed Rashid</a>: TALIBAN – The Story of the Afghan Warlords; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-330-49221-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-330-49221-7">0-330-49221-7</a>.</li> <li>A. R. Rowan: On The Trail Of A Lion: Ahmed Shah Massoud, Oil Politics and Terror</li> <li>MaryAnn T. Beverly (2007): From That Flame; Kallisti Publishing</li> <li>Roger Plunk: The Wandering Peacemaker</li> <li>References to Massoud appear in the book "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by <a href="/wiki/Khaled_Hosseini" title="Khaled Hosseini">Khaled Hosseini</a>.</li> <li>References to Massoud appear in the book "Sulla rotta dei ribelli" by Emilio Lonardo; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788895797885" title="Special:BookSources/9788895797885">9788895797885</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kara_Kush" title="Kara Kush">Kara Kush</a>, London: William Collins Sons and Co., Ltd., 1986. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0685557871" title="Special:BookSources/0685557871">0685557871</a> The novel Kara Kush by Idries Shah is rumored to be loosely based on the exploits of Massoud during the Afghan-Soviet War</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olivier_Weber" title="Olivier Weber">Olivier Weber</a> (2013): Massoud's Confession; Flammarion.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output 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mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interviews">Interviews</h3></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060925043421/http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/balcerowicz/texts/Ahmad_Shah_Masood_en.htm">The Last Interview with Ahmad Shah Massoud</a> Piotr Balcerowicz, early August 2001</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Obituaries_and_articles">Obituaries and articles</h3></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/ahmed-shah-massoud">Ahmad Shah Massoud</a> collected news and commentary at <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/10/opinion/10iht-edsaikal_ed3_.html">Remembering Massoud, a fighter for peace</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>, September 10, 2002</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061206022344/http://www.time.com/time/asia/2006/heroes/nb_massoud.html">60 Years of Asian Heroes: Ahmad Shah Massoud</a> Time, 2006</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/09/bc868dd6-f1e9-413b-a013-2a2f590eedc5.html">Profile: Afghanistan's 'Lion Of Panjshir'</a> Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, September 5, 2006</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-sep-22-la-fg-afghanistan-massoud-20100922-story.html">Afghan Commander Massoud, Killed on Eve of 9/11 Attacks, is a National Hero</a> by <a href="/wiki/The_LA_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="The LA Times">The LA Times</a>, September 22, 2010</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Documentaries/Panegyrics">Documentaries/Panegyrics</h3></div> <ul><li>An 18-minute <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzPcMB9SQz0&feature=search">video, 'Starving to Death', about Massoud defending Kabul against the Taliban siege in March 1996.</a> With horrifying pictures of civilian war victims. By Journeyman Pictures/Journeyman.tv. Retrieved on YouTube, June 27, 2018.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reza" title="Reza">Reza</a> and <a href="/wiki/Olivier_Weber" title="Olivier Weber">Olivier Weber</a> on Massoud, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://vimeo.com/138748304">National Geographic</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/afghanistan_revealed">'Afghanistan Revealed' (2000) | SnagFilms</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190401021500/http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/afghanistan_revealed/">Archived</a> April 1, 2019, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. A portrait of Massoud by National Geographic photographer <a href="/wiki/Reza_Deghati" title="Reza Deghati">Reza Deghati</a>, cinematographer Stephen Cocklin, and writer <a href="/wiki/Sebastian_Junger" title="Sebastian Junger">Sebastian Junger</a></li> <li>[Dead link, on National Geographic:] <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20011109045349/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/events/01/world/index.html">A Film Screening and Panel Discussion Focusing on the Middle East and Afghanistan</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #bebebe;">Government offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Aslam_Watanjar" title="Mohammad Aslam Watanjar">Mohammad Aslam Watanjar</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"> <a href="/wiki/Afghan_Defense_Ministry" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan Defense Ministry">Minister of Defense</a> June 1992 – September 2001 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Fahim" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Fahim">Mohammed Fahim</a></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko" title="Konstantin Chernenko">Konstantin Chernenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Babrak_Karmal" title="Babrak Karmal">Babrak Karmal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Najibullah" title="Mohammad Najibullah">Mohammad Najibullah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum" title="Abdul Rashid Dostum">Abdul Rashid Dostum</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mujahideen</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ahmad Shah Massoud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Ali_Mazari" title="Abdul Ali Mazari">Abdul Ali Mazari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Yusuf_Azzam" title="Abdullah Yusuf Azzam">Abdullah Yusuf Azzam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar" title="Gulbuddin Hekmatyar">Gulbuddin Hekmatyar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Haq_(Afghan_leader)" title="Abdul Haq (Afghan leader)">Abdul Haq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rahim_Wardak" title="Abdul Rahim Wardak">Abdul Rahim Wardak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burhanuddin_Rabbani" title="Burhanuddin Rabbani">Burhanuddin Rabbani</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Events by year</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1979_in_Afghanistan" title="1979 in Afghanistan">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_in_Afghanistan" title="1980 in Afghanistan">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_in_Afghanistan" title="1981 in Afghanistan">1981</a></li> <li><a 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title="Operation Arrow">Operation Arrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan" title="Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan">Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Civilian protests</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/3_Hoot_uprising" title="3 Hoot uprising">3 Hoot uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_student_protests_in_Kabul" title="1980 student protests in Kabul">Kabul students' uprising</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Soviet_aircraft_losses_during_the_Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War" title="List of Soviet aircraft losses during the Soviet–Afghan War">Soviet aircraft losses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War_in_popular_culture" title="Soviet–Afghan War in popular culture">War in popular culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_military_equipment_used_by_Mujahideen_during_Soviet-Afghan_War" class="mw-redirect" title="List of military equipment used by Mujahideen during Soviet-Afghan War">Military equipment used by Mujahideen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghanistan_War_Memorial,_Kyiv" title="Afghanistan War Memorial, Kyiv">Afghanistan War Memorial, Kyiv</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films about war</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War_films" title="List of Soviet–Afghan War films">List of films</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_9th_Company" title="The 9th Company">The 9th Company</a></li> <li><a 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