Ahmad Zia Massoud (b. May 1, 1956) was the first Vice President of Afghanistan in the first elected administration of President Hamid Karzai from December 2004 to November 2009. He is the younger brother of Ahmad Shah Massoud.
Zia was born in Muqur, which is in Ghazni province of Afghanistan. He attended Esteqlal High School, the French sponsored school in Kabul, for his primary and secondary studies, and then entered the Polytechnical University...
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Ahmad Zia Massoud (b. May 1, 1956) was the first Vice President of Afghanistan in the first elected administration of President Hamid Karzai from December 2004 to November 2009. He is the younger brother of Ahmad Shah Massoud.
Zia was born in Muqur, which is in Ghazni province of Afghanistan. He attended Esteqlal High School, the French sponsored school in Kabul, for his primary and secondary studies, and then entered the Polytechnical University of Kabul. However, he left school in his third year, in 1978, caught up in the tumultuous events in the country, and joined the mujahideen with his brother Ahmad Shah, in the Panjsher Valley north of Kabul.
From 1978 to 1981, Ahmad Zia directed Qarargah of Paryan in Haut-Panjsher, and directed resistance in the entire valley. Between 1981 and April 1992, his commander (Ahmed Shah Massoud) named him special representative of his Jamiat-e-Islami party to Peshawar, Pakistan, where the seven principal parties of the Afghan resistance met. Also...
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