Mohammed Daud Daud
Mohammad Daud Daud General Mohammad Daud Daud پیرو راستین مسعود, one of the Tajik generals, was 41 years old when he was killed. and was the general commander of the police in the north and northeast of Afghanistan.
He was one of the well-known anti-Taliban and Al-Qaeda figures and the creator of the local police پولیس محلی in Afghanistan.
Daud Daud completed his school at Abu Osman Taloqani High School and had a bachelor's degree in political science, and he was still enrolled in a foreign university to get a master's degree before his death.
In the 1980, he joined the forces of Com. Seyyed Hossein known as, one of the prominent commanders of the Islamic Jamiat of Afghanistan. After the assassination of Commander Seyyed Hossein by Golbuddin Hekmatyar, Commander Daud joined Ahmad Shah Massoud and was appointed first as Jamyat e islami finance department member and then as his special assistant to Massoud
After the withdrawal of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, and in internal conflicts, a new movement called the Taliban emerged in Kandahar and advanced to take the government of Burhanuddin Rabbani and the fall of Afghanistan. Ahmad Shah Massoud decided to negotiate and meet with them when they arrived in the Maidan Shahr center of Wardak province, located south of Kabul, and he went to meet them with some of his companions and He listened to their demands. But he soon realized that it was not possible to negotiate with this group and returned. The leadership of the Islamic government, led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, was determined to take the war out of Kabul so that the citizens of Kabul, who were severely damaged during the civil war, would no longer suffer.
Commander Massoud had ordered his trusted person Daud to keep his forces away from the capital and take command of the central forces in the northeast.
When the Taliban took over the government in Afghanistan, he led his forces against the Taliban and until December 2001, when the Taliban were completely defeated, he remained in his position and fought against them;
He successfully cleared Takhar and Kundoz provinces from Taliban And Al-Qayeda
After the defeat of the first Taliban regime, Major General Daud Daud, who was the governor of Takhar province in the Islamic government of Afghanistan, after the establishment of the interim government led by Hamid Karzai, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and appointed as the commander of the army corps in the northeast.
In 2004, Gen. Daud was appointed as Deputy Counter-Narcotics in the Ministry of Interior/Afghanistan. During his mission, drugs were controlled in many parts of Afghanistan,His campaign against opium poppy cultivation was successful in several provinces, including Logar, Ghazni, Wardak, Paktia, Helmand, Urozgan Paktika and Badakhshan. But because of his financial and public support to Dr. Abdullah Abdullah in the presidential election, Hamid Karzai threatened to expel him
After Hamid Karzai won again in the elections, he was appointed as the commander of the North and Northeast Police Zone in 2010.
He was one of the staunch anti-Taliban commanders. In the first days of his work, he presented the plan for the establishment of the local police as an adviser to Gen. Besmillah Mohammadi, the then interior minister of Afghanistan, a plan that was very useful for the security of the north.
He was more in the battlefield and fighting terrorism than sitting in the office, because of this, the insecurity in the north was reduced by 80%, Hamid Karzai, whose first deputy was Marshal Fahim, accused him of genocide against the Pashtuns.
On May 28, 2011, he was wounded in the leg by the explosion of a mine planted in the sofa of Takhar governor's office. After asking for help, he was killed by unknown person with thirteen bullets.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan took responsibility for this attack, but Takhar's influentials and officials hold Lt.General Zalmai Weesa, the commander national army in the north, and Abdul Jaber Taqwa, the governor of Takhar, responsible for his death.
Burhanuddin Rabbani, the former president, and Abdullah Abdullah, head of the National Coalition, called on the government to conduct an immediate investigation into the recent killings.
Before General Daud Daud, Khan Mohammad Mujahid, the police commander of Kandahar and Abdul Rahman Seyedkheli, the police commander of Kunduz were also killed by suicide attacks.
Daud and the Battle of Kunduz
Daud was responsible for overseeing the November 2001 siege of Kunduz, the last major battle in the assault to topple the Taliban During the siege of Kunduz all sides of the city were surrounded by Northern Alliance forces. Inside the city there were estimated to be 20,000-30,000 Taliban fighters, many of whom had vowed to fight to the death, rather than surrender. In Kunduz during the November 2001 siege were the so-called "Afghan Arabs", foreign volunteers believed to be led by Osama bin Laden. According to General Mohammed Daud a pro-Taliban leader named "Omar al-Khatab" was leading a force of 1,000 foreign fighters belonging to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network. Little was known about the foreign Taliban. According to Afghan Taliban soldiers taken prisoner by the Northern Alliance; the foreigners did not fight side by side with the Taliban, but in separate units, under their own commanders. During the siege the mayor of Kunduz travelled through the surrounding mountains to meet General Mohammed Daud of the Northern Alliance, supposedly in a garden near Taloqan. Following the meeting, the mayor was ready to surrender, but needed time to negotiate with the foreign volunteers, who opposed surrender. In an effort to end the siege, Daud promised the low-ranking Taliban fighters fair treatment if they surrendered: "We will allow the low-ranking foreigners to appear before a court." On 27 November 2001 street-to-street fighting began at 7am in Kunduz, when Northern Alliance troops led by General Mohammed Daud advanced into town. The remaining Taliban were defeated and Kunduz fell under Northern Alliance control. After victory at the siege of Kunduz and the subsequent establishment of the Interim Government in Afghanistan, Daud was appointed as Military commander of Corps No 6 in Kunduz /Kunduz province.Daud's political career
Daud was the former governor of the Takhar province in Afghanistan.Gen. Mohammad Daud was the top counter-narcotics official in the Afghan government. Counternarcotics enforcement activities have been directed from within the Ministry of Interior since 2002. General Mohammed Daud was named Deputy Ministry of Interior for Counternarcotics by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in October 2004. He was also the head of the Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan. Daud and his staff worked with U.S. and British officials in implementing the Afghan government's expanded counternarcotics enforcement plan. Soon following his appointment, Daud led an Afghan delegation that participated in a thirty night session of the sub-commission on illicit Drug Traffic and related matters in the Near and Middle East in Beirut, Lebanon. Delegates from twenty-one countries participated in the meeting. General Mohammad Daud delivered a presentation on the counter narcotics activities of the government of Afghanistan, achievements and problems still being faced.
President Hamid Karzai took steps to establish landlocked Afghanistan as a trade hub connecting the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe. Daud was involved in Karzai's plan to rehabilitate the war-torn Afghan economy. In late December 2002 Daud led an economic trade delegation to neighboring Tajikistan. Kabul has been particularly interested in swiftly opening trading routes in Central Asia, where there is a vast market for Afghan goods.
Daud expressed optimism about Afghanistan's effort to halt the opium trade: "We witnessed a remarkable reduction in the level of poppy cultivation all over Afghanistan last year. We worked very hard in the provinces where poppy cultivation was higher last year. The poppy eradication campaign is extensively under way in 11 provinces. Some 45,000 jeribs of poppy cultivated land have so far been cleared. The campaign will start in 11 other provinces soon."
Daud was also involved in Afghanistan's Disbandment of Illegal Armed. DIAG is a program within the Afghan Ministry of Interior. DAIG supports the Afghan government's objectives to bring stability to Afghanistan through the continuing process of demilitarization. The program also focuses on removing from office those government officials with proven links to illegal armed groups. Daud said that DIAG is not a program to take only weapons from individuals but that it is a program to disband the armed groups in order to ensure a sustainable safe and secure country.
Fight against Taliban terrorism
Acid attack on Afghan schoolgirls
On 12 November 2008 attackers in Afghanistan sprayed acid in the faces of at least 15 girls near a school in Kandahar. One of the girls who was attacked was quoted as saying, "We were going to school on foot when two unknown people on a motorcycle came close to us and threw acid in our faces", 16-year-old Atifa told the BBC." At least two of the girls were blinded by the attack. General Mohammad Daud was tasked to deal with the incident. The attack on the girls, who had been wearing all-covering burqas, drew wide condemnation including from President Hamid Karzai and U.S. First Lady Laura Bush.Daud said authorities had arrested ten men for the crime a few days after the attack. He said at a press conference that "The attack was the work of the Taliban and we have not finalised our investigation", and told the BBC that "the attack was the work of the Taliban" and that the attackers "were taking orders from the other side of the border from those who are leading terrorist attacks in Kandahar." Daud told reporters that the ten Afghans arrested had been promised 100,000 Pakistani rupees each by Taliban in Pakistan. Many of them confessed to the attacks. Daud said his ministry had opened a bank account to collect money for the girls' medical treatment and education.