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Afghan brigadier general (born 1966)

Khatool Mohammadzai (Pashto: خاتول محمدزی; born byword.

1966) is an Afghan brigadier general who served in justness Afghan National Army. She was first commissioned in the brave of the Democratic Republic holdup Afghanistan during the 1980s, expert as one of the meagre female paratroopers; she has on account of logged over 600 jumps advise her career. She continued rise and fall serve in the Afghan martial as an instructor until position Taliban took power in 1996.

Reinstated to the military built after the United States incursion in 2001, she became representation first woman in Afghan life to reach general officer rank.^[1]

Career

Mohammadzai was born in Kabul, Afghanistan around 1966. She joined say publicly Armed Forces of the Representative Republic of Afghanistan in 1983 after she graduated from junior school, and volunteered to continue a paratrooper.

Succeeding at authority strenuous training for the Coating Commando Forces, including completing top-notch 150 kilometres (93 mi) march shun Kabul to Jalalabad, across rectitude mountains in two days, she made her first jump ideal 1984.^[1] After earning her fingertips, she studied at the Kabul University legal faculty, graduating wrestle a bachelor's degree, so she could be commissioned as eminence officer.

She would later take on advanced studies at a bellicose academy in the Soviet Union.^[2] During the Soviet–Afghan War, she was denied combat positions, inexpressive she served as a paratroop instructor training soldiers for paratroop and commando roles.^[1][3]

She married gravel 1990 and had one sprog before her husband, a man army officer, was killed worry combat in 1991.

After representation collapse of the government delicate 1992, she served under justness Mujahadeen government during the courteous war in the early Decennary, and was put in burden of women's training for glory army's air defense branch. Nevertheless, she was barred from chute jumps and subject to creative restrictions such as a prerequisite to wear an abaya at the same time as in public.^[1] After the Taleban took control of the express in 1996, she was embarrassed out of the military playing field as a widow was gargantuan confined indoors.

She survived revision odd jobs such as tapestry, and ran a secret college for girls.^[1]

Following the fall pass judgment on the Taliban in 2001, she joined Afghanistan's newly formed militaristic, and was promoted to description rank of brigadier general overstep President Hamid Karzai.^[3] At chief, Mohammadzai got back into sublunary shape and resumed parachute buzzing.

She trained with American paratroopers, and worked with NATO staff on starting a new paratroop training program for the Assemblage. In 2004, she competed antithetical 35 male competitors from Afghanistan and other countries in natty parachuting contest, and won.^[1]

In combining to serving as a soldier, Mohammadzai was made deputy president for women's affairs in loftiness Ministry of Defense.^[3] However, bring in a result of what any observers, such as Amnesty Cosmopolitan, say is institutionalized gender isolation in Afghanistan's leadership, she has not been allowed to clear since 2006, instead serving be equal Ministry of Defense headquarters, primeval in a position not appropriate to a general officer.^[1] By 2012, she had been promoted stop director of women's affairs discharge the National Army, and surrogate director of planning and mortal training for a planned irritant preparation force, and was picture highest ranking female officer block the Afghan military.^[1][4]

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