In the north of Afghanistan Taliban wounded the country's vice president Dostum

There are reports from Afghanistan that the country's vice president Abdul-Rashid Dostum, who was part of a security convoy in the province of Faryab in northern Afghanistan, was ambushed by Taliban militants (prohibited in the Russian Federation). According to information Khaama pressDostum (and he is the second person in the political hierarchy of Afghanistan) was injured. Abdul-Rashid Dostum was able to evacuate to a safe place, from where they were subsequently taken to the hospital.

The material of the news agency states that in addition to Dostum injured 20 Afghan soldiers. 15 people from the special convoys were killed by the Taliban attack.

It is reported on the purpose of the visit of Dostum to the province of Faryab, several areas of which are controlled by the militants. According to the press service of the Afghan government, General Dostum intended to monitor the progress of the operation against the Taliban and "make certain adjustments to it to improve efficiency."

For reference: the Afghan province of Faryab is bordered by the Republic of Turkmenistan. Its borders are actively used for drug trafficking, which increased dozens of times after the start of the American operation in Afghanistan. The territories of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, adjacent to Afghanistan from the north, are becoming transit for transporting drugs to Kazakhstan, Russia and further to Europe.

On the 1st channel of Afghan television came out news a report stating that Abdul-Rashid Dostum is out of danger and there are no threats to his life - the wound turned out to be slight.

Comments

[Holoy]

Is this Klovan still alive?

[rotmistr60]

Vice President Abdul-Rashid Dostum

Yes, my site colleagues will forgive me, but I have not even heard that name.

[erased]

Full of information about him. But in fact at the time of OKSVA he was a supporter and ally of the USSR.

[creak]

He is also an informal leader of ethnic Uzbeks living in the north of the country ....
In the days of OKSVA, another name was widely known - Ahmad Shah Masoud (leader of ethnic Tajiks) - a very serious opponent with whom our command had to reckon and negotiate a truce ... Together with Dostum, they controlled a significant part of the north of Afghanistan ...
He died as a result of an attack organized by the Taliban ...

[Holoy]

Masoud was a truly talented warrior, unlike Dostum ...

[vovanpain]

Quote: rotmistr60

Vice President Abdul-Rashid Dostum

Yes, my site colleagues will forgive me, but I have not even heard that name.

So it's a noteworthy person.

Abdul-Rashid Dostum was born in 1954 in a poor family in the village of Khojadukuh, Shibirgan county, Jauzjan province, in a family of a dekhkan. Ethnicity - Uzbek. Father is Uzbek, mother is Turkmen.
He worked at an enterprise in the gas industry. In 1980 he was sent to study in the USSR. Then he began serving in the state security organs of the pro-Soviet Afghan government.
Since 1979 - Member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. Faction "Brocade" (Banner). In 1979 - is a member of a local self-defense unit.
During the years of the Afghan war, 1979-1989 was the commander of the 53rd division of government troops, consisting mainly of Uzbeks.
After the withdrawal of Soviet troops, he supported the pro-Soviet Afghan government of Najibullah.
The party was led by the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (NIDA), which advocated the federalization of Afghanistan.
After the defeat of the pro-Soviet regime in 1992, he headed the virtually independent 2,5 millionth central-northern region of Afghanistan (the provinces of Balkh, Jauzjan, Faryab, Kunduz) with the capital in Mazar-e-Sharif, nicknamed “Dostumistan,” which had its own government, money, and well-armed army (including tanks and Soviet-made aircraft) of up to 65 thousand people.
During the ongoing civil war, he entered into alliances with various warring factions: with Hekmatyar against Masoud, with the Taliban against Hekmatyar, with Masoud against the Taliban.
At the beginning of 1995, Dostum visited Tashkent and talked face to face with President Islam Karimov, which was once again regarded as a secret conspiracy between them, aimed at supporting the general’s separatist aspirations for the reunification of the Uzbek region of Afghanistan with Uzbekistan.
In 1996, Dostumistan became part of the second Northern Alliance, opposing the central Afghan Taliban government.
May 25, 1997, after the loss of a number of provinces due to the betrayal of the second person in Dostumistan - Malika - Dostum emigrates to Turkey, and Dostumistan ceases to exist and is in the power of the Taliban.
After Malik switched back to the side of the Northern Alliance and the liberation of Dostumistan, Dostum returned to Afghanistan in September 1997.
In August 1998, the Taliban captured Dostumistan for the second time, and Dostum emigrated to Uzbekistan.
After the defeat of the Taliban in 2001, Dostum returned to Afghanistan and was part of the new government.
In 2004, Dostum ran for president and took fourth place with 10 percent of the vote.
In 2005, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces of Afghanistan.
In 2008, after attacking his former ally, Akbar Bai was removed from his post as chief of the General Staff and sent into exile.
In 2009, he returned to Afghanistan and began to actively participate in the political life of the country.
Since the end of 2009 - Chief of Staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces of Afghanistan.
Since 2014, elected 1 vice president of Afghanistan. An active participant in the armed conflict with ISIS in Afghanistan.

Here is such a vice president.

[Holoy]

Yes, it’s Bai with the manners of Stalin ... in Mazar-e-Sharif at one time there were portraits of him on every corner ... Another clan ...

[dumpy15]

Thanks to this Uzbek, we evacuated the embassy staff and their families from the Kabul airport without loss.

[Monarchist]

Dostum is a bright personality. In general, it seems to me that he is the brightest person there.

[Ustrushan]

In vain, the man is smart, courageous enough, a good organizer, knows how to listen and is well traded. )))

[protoss]

Quote: rotmistr60

Vice President Abdul-Rashid Dostum

Yes, my site colleagues will forgive me, but I have not even heard that name.

But will you find Afghanistan on the map?
there are not so many names that have been heard for decades, dostum is one of them.

[Gelos]

And the "captains" at least know how to use Wikipedia, Eh ?? ...

[Roust]

Quote: Holoy

Masoud was a truly talented warrior, unlike Dostum ...

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[faterdom]

Let it get better. This is the Uzbek leader of Afghanistan, and while the Uzbeks are behind him, they are not in the Taliban and not in ISIS, although some of them are part of radical movements. But the part is not all, and this is a real buffer layer, together with Tajiks and Hazaras, as well as Badakhshans, between the Taliban or ISIS, and post-Soviet Central Asia. Although their gesheft on drug trafficking is not good, but not ISIS, on the defenseless, in fact, Turkmen border.

[Razvedka_Boem]

If the Taliban had succeeded, the situation at the border, and not so simple, would have become even more complicated.