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Abdul Ali Mazari Abdul Ali Mazari (1946-March 1995) was one of the first prominent political leader of Hazara in Afghanistan. He was the co-founder of 'Hezb-e-wahdat', which represent all the oppressed people (especially Shia and Hazara) of Afghanistan. Image File history File links Circle-question-red. ... Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Chahar Kint is a district in Balkh Province, Afghanistan. ... Balkh is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ghazni (Persian: غزنی , Ğaznī) is a city in eastern Afghanistan, with an estimated population of 149,998 people. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a 10-year war which wreaked incredible havoc and destruction on Afghanistan. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

Mazari was born in 1946, in the village of Nanwai, Charkent District, Balkh Province. He studied in private religious schools in Mazar-i-Shariff, Qum (Iran), and Najaf (Iraq). After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Mazari founded the Nasr Party. When Wahdat was formed from the merger of nine Shia' factions, Mazari became the leader.

During the first years of the resistance against the Russain Red Army, he lost his young brother, Mohammed Sultan, during a battle against the Soviet-backed forces. He soon lost his sister and other members of his family in the resistance. His uncle, Mohammad Ja'afar, and his son, Mohammad Afzal, were imprisoned and killed by the puppet regime in Kabul. He also lost his father, Haji Khudadad, and his brother, Haji Mohammad Nabi, in the rebellion and resistance movement.^{[citation needed]} For other places with the same name, see Kabul (disambiguation). ...

Hezbi Wahshat

Mazari was one of the founding members and the first leader of Hezbi Wahdat Islamic Afghanistan (Islamic Unity Party).^{[citation needed]} In the first Congress of the party, he was elected leader of the Central Committee. During the second Congress, he was elected Secretary General of the Wahdat Party. Mazari's initiative led to the creation of the Jonbeshi Shamal (Northern Movement), in which the country's most significant military forces joined ranks with the rebels, leading to a coup d'etat and the eventual downfall of the regime in Kabul. Mazari's purpose of life was to let the world know about Hazara nation and get the rights which been snatched for many decades.^{[citation needed]} Hezb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan is a political party in Afghanistan. ...

Conflict with Taliban and Death

Mullah Burjan, the Taliban leader, requested a personal meeting with Mazari. Mazari set off toward Char Asiab in the company of a group of the Central Committee members in a convoy of two cars, whereupon they were betrayed, disarmed and arrested. His forces were disarmed, and soon the whole of West Kabul came under Taliban rule. For the position of women during the Talibans rule, see Taliban treatment of women. ... Char Asiab District is situated in the southern part of the Kabul province in Afghanistan. ...

Mazari and his companions were supposed to have been transferred in helicopters to Kandahar, the Taliban stronghold. During this last flight, the pilots and helicopter crew were instructed by Taliban commanders (who were appalled by atrocities committed by Mazari's militia) that once they entered the Bamian area, the helicopters would climb to the service ceiling height before the warlord was thrown down to the solid hills. He died somewhere close to the city of Ghazni; his body shattered into pieces on impact with the mountain and fell all the way down.^{[citation needed]} A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors consisting of two or more rotor blades. ... This article is about the city in Afghanistan. ... Ghazni (Persian: غزنی , Ğaznī) is a city in eastern Afghanistan, with an estimated population of 149,998 people. ...

See also

• Hazaras
• Hazarajat

The Hazaras. ... The habitat of Hazara ethnic group is usually knows as the Hazarajat or Hazaristan. ...

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