General Rasul Pahlawan was an Uzbek military leader in Afghanistan, and the brother of Uzbek leader Abdul Malik Pahlawan.

Rasul Pahlawan
رسول پهلوان
Born1950
DiedJune 1996
Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
Cause of deathKilled in a ambush
NationalityAfghannistan
CitizenshipAfghanistan
Years active1970-1996
Political partyNational Islamic Movement of Afghanistan

Rasul Pahlawan was born in Faryab Province in northern parts of Afghanistan. In June 1996, he was killed in an ambush in Mazar-i-Sharif.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ MR Ahmed Rashid (13 April 2010). Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. Yale University Press. pp. 57–. ISBN 978-0-300-16368-1. Retrieved 24 November 2012.