Colonel General Rajabali Rahmonali (), born as Rajabali Fayzalievich Rakhmonaliev is a military leader in the

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Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

. Since 2013, he has been the chief of the

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Career

He was born on 7 October 1967 in

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, a town in the

Khatlon Region Khatlon Region ( tg, Вилояти Хатлон, ''Viloyati Xatlon''), one of the four provinces of Tajikistan ( tg, вилоят, ''Viloyat''), is the most populous of the four first level administrative regions. It is situated in the southwest ...

of the Tajik SSR and the capital of the Danghara District. In 1989, he graduated from the

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, majoring in military-political specialization. From August 1989 to March 1992, he served as an officer in the ranks of the

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. During his service, he was based in

Chelyabinsk Chelyabinsk ( rus, Челя́бинск, p=tɕɪˈlʲæbʲɪnsk, a=Ru-Chelyabinsk.ogg; ba, Силәбе, ''Siläbe'') is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the seventh-largest city in Russia, with a ...

and the Kazakh SSR. In March 1992, he joined the

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, serving in the Ministry of Defense in the positions of deputy military commissar. During the

Tajikistani Civil War The Tajikistani Civil War ( tg, Ҷанги шаҳрвандии Тоҷикистон, translit=Jangi shahrvandiyi Tojikiston / Çangi shahrvandiji Toçikiston; russian: Гражданская война в Таджикистане), also known ...

, he served in a detachment in the Popular Front of Tajikistan. He was one of the leaders of the liberation of Dushanbe. In 1997, he became the commander of the

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. In 2004 he graduated from the

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with a degree in Combined Arms Units and Formations Management. In January 2004, he became Commander of the National Guard, replacing

Ghaffor Mirzoyev Ghaffor Mirzoyev (), also known as Gaffor-Sedoy () is a Tajik politician who was the former head of the Drug Control Agency in Tajikistan. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004 on charges of abuse of power, privatization of government proper ...

. On 20 November 2013, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for National Security, which concurrently comes with the posts of Head of the Main Directorate of the Border Troops and Commander of the Border Troops of the SCNS.

Personal life

He holds the following state awards: Order "Spitamen" (1997), Order of Glory (1999), and the Order "Zarrintoj II degree" (2013). He is married with five children. He is a nephew of President Emomali Rahmon, In 2020, he was infected with

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, and was hospitalized with

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References

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