Bismillah Khan Mohammadi

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General Bismillah Khan on the left, and former U.S. Army General John Abizaid on the right. - 2005
General Bismillah Khan on the left, and former U.S. Army General John Abizaid on the right. - 2005

General Bismillah Mohammadi Khan (or simply Bismillah Khan) is the Chief of Staff of the National Army of Afghanistan since 2002.

Before the fall of the Taliban, he was the Northern Alliance's Deputy Minister of Defence, under Ahmad Shah Massoud and later Mohammed Fahim. After the fall of Kabul to the United Front, he was appointed commander of the 2000 men Kabul police force, and a member of the Kabul Security Commission. He is an ethnic Tajik from the Panjshir Valley.

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