General Rasul Pahlawan was an Uzbek military leader in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

, and the brother of Uzbek leader

Abdul Malik Pahlawan Abdul Malik Pahlawan is an Uzbek warlord and politician based in Faryab Province in northern Afghanistan. He is the head of the Afghanistan Liberation Party and was heavily involved in the factional fighting that consumed Afghanistan throughout ...

. Rasul Pahlawan was born in

Faryab Province Faryab (Dari: ) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, which is located in the north of the country bordering neighboring Turkmenistan. It has a population of about 1,109,223, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a tribal society. The pr ...

in northern parts of Afghanistan. In June 1996, he was killed in an ambush in

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Afghan Uzbek politicians History of Faryab Province 1996 deaths People murdered in Afghanistan Mazar-i-Sharif People from Faryab Province 1950 births {{Afghanistan-bio-stub