Mohammed Daud Daud, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mohammed Daud Daud

Police chief from Afghanistan

Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1969

Place of Birth: Takhar, Afghanistan

Date of Death: 28-May-2011

Profession: politician, chief of police

Nationality: Afghanistan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Mohammed Daud Daud

  • Mohammed Daud Daud (Persian: ???? ???? ????) (January 1969 – 28 May 2011), also known as General Daud Daud, an ethnic Tajik, was the police chief in northern Afghanistan and the commander of the 303 Pamir Corps.
  • He was an opponent of the Afghan Taliban. Daud studied engineering in college.
  • After graduating from college in the 1980s he joined the forces of Ahmad Shah Massoud against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
  • After the retreat of Soviet troops and the defeat of the Afghan communist regime, Daud remained in Takhar province of Afghanistan.
  • Ahmad Shah Massoud had ordered him to guard northern areas and to keep his forces out of the capital Kabul.
  • When the Taliban took power in Kabul, Daud served as a leading military commander of the anti-Taliban United Front under the command of Ahmad Shah Massoud, which later spearheaded the defeat of the Taliban.
  • In October 2001, Daud was directly responsible for retaking the city of Kunduz from an Al Qaeda-Taliban alliance. After the fall of the Taliban regime, he was appointed a Deputy Interior Minister for Counter Narcotics in Afghanistan.
  • His campaign against poppy cultivation was successful in several provinces, including Ogar, Ghazni, Wardak, Paktia, Paktika and Panjshir.In 2010 he was appointed police chief of Afghanistan's northern provinces, overseeing Interior Ministry forces and directly commanding his own police elite force called Pamir 303.
  • An opponent of the Taliban, Daud was assassinated on May 28, 2011 in a Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) bomb attack in Taloqan, Afghanistan.

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