Zarar Ahmad Moqbel Osmani ( fa, ضرار احمد عثمانی, ps, ضرار احمد عثمانی, born 1964) is a politician in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2015 and

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from 30 September 2005 to 11 October 2008. He previously served as Minister of Counter Narcotics and as

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. Prior to this he served as Chief of Police of Parwan province and as First Secretary to Afghan Embassy in Tehran. He also joined the

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during the Soviet–Afghan War, fighting against the Afghan government led by Mohammad Najibullah.

Early years and education

Osmani was born in 1964 in Khuwaja Sayaran village, Parwan Province, Afghanistan. His father was a parliamentarian during King Zahir Shah's administration. He completed his primary education at Sayed Jamaluddin Afghani School in Kabul and his secondary education at Mohammad Osman Khan-e-Parwani Vocational School. He graduated from

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and later enrolled in the

Polytechnical University of Kabul Kabul Polytechnic University is the main center of educating engineers in Kabul, Afghanistan. It was founded on 13 October 1963 (1342 mizan in the Afghan calendar) as Kabul Polytechnic Institute and is located in 72 hectares of land in Karte Mam ...

. He studied in Kabul Polytechnic institute from 1983 to 1988. He obtained his BA from the Parwan Pedagogy Institute specializing in math and physics.

Careers

In 1988, Osmani joined the mujahideen in Parwan. However, after the collapse of Najibullah's government in 1992, Osmani was made the Deputy Chief of Staff at the

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under new the Islamic State of Afghanistan. By April 1994, Osmani was serving as Chief of Police of Parwan province. Between 1998 and 2002, he served as First Secretary at Afghan Embassy in Tehran. It is said that he was instrumental in helping unite the Northern Alliance. After the collapse of the

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and establishment of the

Karzai administration Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Republi ...

, Osamani became

in February 2004. In 2009, Osmani was appointed Minister of Counter Narcotics. During his confirmation, he received the highest ever number of confidence votes from the

Afghan Parliament The Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, also translated as the Supreme Council, () (also referred to as the Inner Shura) is the central governing body of the Taliban and Afghanistan. The Taliban uses a consensus decision-maki ...

. On 28 October 2013, President Karzai appointed Osmani as the acting Foreign Minister.

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