Haji Abdul Zahir Qadeer ( ps, حاجی عبدالظاهر قدیر) is a member of parliament 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 ...

. He used to be a

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in Afghanistan's Border Guard. Zahir Qadeer is the son of

Haji Abdul Qadeer Haji Abdul Qadeer ( ps, حاجی عبدالقدیر; – 6 July 2002) was a prominent Northern Alliance leader in Afghanistan and opposed the Taliban. Originally a commander of the Hezb-i Islami Khalis faction during the Soviet–Afghan War, h ...

a senior member of the anti-

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United Islamic Front The Northern Alliance, officially known as the United Islamic National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ( prs, جبهه متحد اسلامی ملی برای نجات افغانستان ''Jabha-yi Muttahid-i Islāmi-yi Millī barāyi Nijāt ...

(Northern Alliance), and one of the first

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s of the Afghan Transitional Administration. Zahir Qadir's father was assassinated on 8 July 2002. Zahir Qadeer and two other anti-Taliban leaders were freed from a Taliban prison in 1999 by Abdul-Razzaq Hekmati and Hekmatullah Hekmati, two former Mujahids who had served with the Taliban when they became disillusioned. His family has long-standing ties with Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan. On 30 August 2017, at least two security guards were killed in a suicide attack targeting his residence in Jalalabad.

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