General. Mohammed Daud Daud, was the police chief for Northern Afghanistan and the commander of the elite 303 Pamir Corps

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7998QpjdL8xPBIswfwGTw_6B6TR3_yVyMiXXDEpIbhDZ9Su1yMr4OBfoCMmD2vdBswX3CYM74G8sJmpSLo4DwrBwysYgq60WYjUQ7lQ0QjehuhLOfbym3WFImB9x5OkDsc13sKmgsACLy/s1600/Mohammad_Daud_Daud.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7998QpjdL8xPBIswfwGTw_6B6TR3_yVyMiXXDEpIbhDZ9Su1yMr4OBfoCMmD2vdBswX3CYM74G8sJmpSLo4DwrBwysYgq60WYjUQ7lQ0QjehuhLOfbym3WFImB9x5OkDsc13sKmgsACLy/s400/Mohammad_Daud_Daud.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>General H.E. Mohammed Daud Daud, محمد داود داود, (also known as General Daud and Mohammed Daud) (1 January 1969 - 28 May 2011) was the police chief for Northern Afghanistan and the commander of the elite 303 Pamir Corps. He was considered one of the most effective and important opponents of the Afghan Taliban.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Gen. Daud studied engineering in college. After graduating 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, Gen. 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, General 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, Gen. Daud was directly responsible for retaking the city of Kunduz from an Al Qaeda-Taliban alliance.</div><div style="text-align: center;">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 such as Logar, Ghazni, Wardak, Paktia, Paktika and Panjshir.</div><div style="text-align: center;">In 2010, he was appointed police chief of 8 northern provinces. Daud commanded all Interior Ministry forces in the north, including his own elite force of police commandos, Pamir 303. Considered one of the most effective opponents of the Taliban he was a high profile target. Gen. Daud was assassinated by a Taliban suicide bomber on May 28, 2011 in an attack in Taloqan, Afghanistan, in which six other people also lost their lives. Before his assassination, Gen. Daud was quoted as saying:</div><div style="text-align: center;">"After Mawlana Saidkhaili [Abdul Rahman Saidkhaili], I accepted to be killed while serving my people. I say this every morning when I leave my home and I am ready to be killed."</div><div style="text-align: center;">—Gen. Mohammad Daud Daud, 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>

General. Mohammed Daud Daud, was the police chief for Northern Afghanistan and the commander of the elite 303 Pamir Corps

General H.E. Mohammed Daud Daud, محمد داود داود, (also known as General Daud and Mohammed Daud) (1 January 1969 - 28 May 2011) was the polic...

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