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Ismail Khan, like Afghan Minister of Defense Rahim Wardak, was one of the high profile Afghans that those conducting the Tribunals ruled were " not reasonably available " to give a statement on a captive's behalf because they could not be located.
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* 1957 – Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Mohammad Ismail Khan ( born 1946 ) is a politician and former mujahideen commander from Afghanistan.
In early 1979 Ismail Khan was a Captain in the Afghan National Army based in the western city of Herat.
The Herat garrison mutinied and joined the revolt, with Ismail Khan and other officers distributing all available weapons to the insurgents.
Ismail Khan escaped to the countryside where he started to assemble a local mujahideen army, which was widely supported by the population of Herat.
In 1992, two years after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the mujahideen captured Herat, and Ismail Khan became Governor.
Ismail Khan was forced to flee to Iran with 8, 000 men and the Taliban took over Herat.
Ismail Khan in 2004
After returning to Herat, Ismail Khan quickly consolidated his control over the region.
As Emir of Herat, Ismail Khan exercised great autonomy, providing social welfare for Heratis, expanding his power into neighbouring provinces, and maintaining direct international contacts.
However, during his tenure as Governor, Ismail Khan was accused of ruling his province like a private fiefdom, leading to increasing tensions with the Afghan Transitional Administration.
Ismail Khan was ultimately removed from power in March 2004 due to pressure by neighbouring warlords and the central Afghan government.
What is known is that Ismail Khan found himself at odds with a few regional commanders who, although theoretically his subordinates, attempted to remove him from power.
Ismail Khan claims that these efforts began with a botched assassination attempt.
Ismail Khan, unpopular with the Herati military class, was slow to mobilise his forces, perhaps waiting for the threat to Herat to become existential as a means to motivate his forces.
Because Ismail Khan was contained by the Afghan National Army, the warlords who opposed him were quickly able to occupy strategic locations unopposed.
Ismail Khan was forced to give up his governorship and to go to Kabul, where he served in Hamid Karzai's cabinet as the Minister of Energy.
On September 27, 2009, Ismail Khan survived a suicide blast that killed 4 of his bodyguards in Herat, in western Afghanistan.
Hekmati had played a key role in helping Ismail Khan escape from the Taliban in 1999.
Carlotta Gall and Andy Worthington interviewed Ismail Khan for a new New York Times article after Hekmati died of cancer in Guantanamo.
Ismail Khan said he personally buttonholed the American ambassador to tell him that Hekmati was innocent, and should be released.
Ismail Khan is a controversial figure.
After the fall of Najibullah's regime in 1992, private militias were formed and the nation began to witness a civil war between the various warlords, including Ahmad Shah Massoud, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Abdul Ali Mazari, Ismail Khan, and many others.
These claims are supported by media reports about the Herat government of Ismail Khan, who has created a religious police that forces women to obey strict dress and behavior codes, as well as many reports by Human Rights Watch.
Ismail and like
The celebrity ownership group attracted a lot of attention in Canada and the team spent a significant amount of money, even signing some highly touted National Football League prospects like wide receiver Raghib Ismail.
Following the 1992 collapse of the communist-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Farah Province, like Herat, Nimroz, and Badghis provinces, came under the influence of Herat-based powerbroker Ismail Khan.
Through Nasīmī's poetry Hurufi ideas influenced, in different degrees, people like Niyaz-i Misri, Fuzuli, Habibi, Khatai ( Ismail I ), and Rushani.
Leader of Karakash gold miners Ismail Khan Khoja sent message to Governor Jin Shuren: " Foolish infidels like you are not fit to rule .... You infidels think that because you have rifles, guns ... and money, you can depend on them, but we depend of God in whose hands are our lives.
Tatars who lived in Central Asia ( like the socialist Ismail Abidiy ) published some of these newspapers.
The famous ones, like the Gypsy köçek Ismail, would have to be booked weeks or months in advance, at a very high cost.
Ismail and Afghan
Ismail Khan's forces even fought skirmishes with the Afghan National Army, in which his son, Mirwais Sadiq was killed.
Muhammad Ismail Agha is an Afghan national who at age 12-13 ( estimated ) was arrested by Afghan militia soldiers, who traded him to U. S. forces in December 2002, for $ 10 US dollars.
* Ismail Balkhi, Afghan politician
* Mohammed Ismail, Afghan Guantanamo Bay detainee
The Gandapurs (, Saraiki / Urdu: گنڈاپور ), also called Gandapore or Afghanpur (), are a Pashtun Afghan tribe inhabiting the environs of Dera Ismail Khan, located in the southern region of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, near the frontier with South Waziristan.
Ismail and Minister
A government was formed by Abdullahi Issa and other members of the trusteeship and protectorate governments, with Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf as President of the Somali National Assembly, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar as President and Abdirashid Ali Shermarke as Prime Minister ( later to become President from 1967 – 1969 ).
In the aftermath of the incident, President Karimov dismissed several senior military figures: Defense Minister Kadyr Gulyamov, Head of the Joint Headquarters of the Armed Forces Ismail
Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas brushes off comments by President Mahmoud Abbas, head of Fatah, who indicated he could dismiss the Hamas-led cabinet.
Ismail Haniya — then Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas leader — called on Palestinians to unite to protest the excavations, while Fatah said they would end their ceasefire with Israel.
In 1872, Gordon was sent to inspect the British military cemeteries in the Crimea, and when passing through Constantinople he made the acquaintance of the Prime Minister of Egypt, who opened negotiations for Gordon to serve under the Khedive, Ismail Pasha.
On 17 March 2007, a unity government was formed incorporating members of both Hamas and Fatah, with Ismail Haniyeh as Prime Minister and independent politicians taking many key portfolios.
At the APEC summit in 1999, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien refused to meet Mahathir, while his foreign minister met with Anwar's wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
Working with him were Minister of War, Ismail Enver ( 1881 – 1922 ) and Minister of the Navy, Ahmed Djemal Pasha ( 1872 – 1922 ).
" He acknowledged having had meetings with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and other senior Hamas officials.
Tun Hussein ’ s meteoric rise continued when on August 13, 1973 he succeeded the late Tun Dr Ismail as the Deputy Prime Minister.
After rioting broke out in June, Home Affairs Minister Ismail Abdul Rahman and Tun Razak agreed to expel Mahathir and former Executive Secretary of UMNO Musa Hitam from the party for breaching party discipline.
After Ismail died suddenly of a heart attack in 1973, Hussein Onn succeeded him as Deputy Prime Minister.
After long-time Prime Minister Barkat Gourad Hamadou resigned for health reasons in February 2001, President Ismail Omar Guelleh appointed Dileita as Prime Minister on March 4, 2001, and he took office on March 7.
On 15 November 2011, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, the Malaysian Minister for Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism accused DAP's publicity chief, Tony Pua, of racism for making repeated attacks against the Kedai Rakyat 1 Malaysia, a government initiative to supply cheap retail products to Malaysian consumers.
Keadilan was led by Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and increased its parliamentary representation from 1 seat to 31 seats in the Malaysian general election, 2008 until the five-year political ban imposed on former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was lifted on 14 April 2008.
He found a willing partner in Ismail Cem and later in the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
* Palestinian legislative election, 2006 ( Palestinian National Authority ) – Hamas victory ; Ismail Haniyeh Prime Minister
After five recounts the party's leader, Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail ( the wife of imprisoned former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim ), retained her seat with a majority of 590 votes.
A government was formed by Abdullahi Issa and other members of the trusteeship and protectorate governments, with Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf as President of the Somali National Assembly, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar as President of the Somali Republic and Abdirashid Ali Shermarke as Prime Minister ( later to become President from 1967 – 1969 ).
Mirwais Sadiq ( died March 21, 2004 ) was the Civil Aviation Minister of Afghanistan and the son of the Ismail Khan, who was then the governor of Herat Province.
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