ENG - Abdul Rahim Wardak is the Defence Minister of Afghanistan. He was appointed by President Hamid Karzai on December 23, 2004. Before this appointment General Wardak was the deputy Defence Minister to Mohammed Fahim. Wardak was also involved in the Soviet war in Afghanistan. He is an ethnic Pashtun from Wardak.
General Wardak has studied overseas in U.S. military schools as well as in Egypt. He joined the army in Afghanistan and became an officer in the 1980s but defected to the Mujahideen movement, and joined the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan party of Pir Sayyed Ahmad Gailani. He was a notable Mujahideen commander, and testified several times before the U.S Congress during the war against the Soviets. In 1989, he was wounded by a Scud missile and received treatment in the ...
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. military successes in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, part of the reason violence has spiked in Afghanistan, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday.
In a demonstration of the increasingly deadly attacks, a roadside blast in the east where U.S. soldiers operate killed three NATO troops, while two separate roadside bombs in the south killed 16 Afghan civilians, officials said.The Afghan defense minister, Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, said terrorists who would have once fought in Iraq have been ...
alexasa - in poll Abdul Rahim Wardak «Уровень насилия растет каждый год, и 2008 стал наихудшим», сказал министр Абдул Рахим Вардак
Кабул. – 2008 оказался самым тяжелым годом для опустошенного войной Афганистана за период после вторжения войск во главе с США, сообщил министр обороны страны. «Уровень насилия растет каждый год, и 2008 стал наихудшим», ...
alexasa - in poll Abdul Rahim Wardak
