Enayatullah Nazari was the acting minister of defense of

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from 8 August 2012 to 15 September 2012 serving for a transitional period. He took over from

Abdul Rahim Wardak General Abdul Rahim Wardak (; Pashto/ prs, عبدالرحیم وردگ; born 1945), an ethnic Pashtun, is an Afghan politician and former Defense Minister of Afghanistan. He was appointed on December 23, 2004, by Afghan President Hamid Karzai. ...

who resigned after a no-confidence vote by the Afghan parliament. Nazari previously served as Wardak's deputy defense minister. On September 15, 2012,

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took over as the new Defense Minister. Born in

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into a Tajik family in 1954, Nazari went on to study Political Science and Law in the capital city Kabul. Nazari worked for the Afghan Attorney General's Office and the Ministry of Justice during the communist and later the post-communist

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period. When the

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rose to power, he kept working with the anti-Taliban Islamic State administration of

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. After the fall of the Taliban regime, Nazari served as the Minister of Refugees. He was appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Defense in 2010, a post he filled until becoming the acting defense minister. Nazari is said to be loyal to Afghan Vice President Mohammad Fahim.

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