Abdul Rahim Wardak

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General Abdurrahim Wardak was appointed Defence Minister of Afghanistan on December 23 2004[1] Before this appointment Wardak was deputy Defence Minister to Mohammed Fahim.

A member of the majority Pashtun ethnic group, Wardak fought against the Soviet Union during their invasion of Afghanistan. Wardak name is sometimes transliterated as Abdur Rahim Wardak, or Abdul Rahim Wardag.

He should not be confused with Taj Mohammed Wardak, a fellow Pashtun and former Minister of the Interior.

Career

Wardak has studied overseas in both the United States and Egypt. His field is education.

Posts Wardak has held[2]
lecturer Cadet University
Assistant of Protocol Afghan Defense Ministry
military assistant Muhaz-e-Milli during the "years of migration"
military assistant tri-lateral unity
commander of the Jihadi fronts Muhaz-e-Milli
member Itehad-e-Mujahiddin
member of the security committee of Kabul City
Chief of the Army Staff
Director Military Officers Society
Director Education Committee
Commission member Rehabilitation of the National Army Commission
Director Disarmament Program
Director Reform of National Army

Wardak has published works in Pashto and Dari and English.

Not "reasonably available" to provide testimony for Guantanamo detainees

Two Guantanamo Bay detainees, Hiztullah Nasrat Yar and his father, Nasrat Khan, claimed, during their Combatant Status Review Tribunals, that Yar had been assigned the responsibility to guard the weapons cache that triggered his arrest by Wardak himself. [3] They had requested Wardak provide an affidavit, testifying to his role. Their Tribunals had told them that the State Department had contacted the Afghan government, and that Wardak's testimony would be unavailable.

Another Guantanamo detainee Hamdidullah, claimed to be a protege of Wardak's, because they both supported the restoration of Zahir Shah, the last King of Afghanistan.

The Boston Globe reported that Guantanamo detainees were routinely told that witnesses who could have been found with a trivial effort were "not reasonably available.[4][5]

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