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Abdul Qadir (Afghan communist) (Abdul Kadir Dagarval) was born on 1944 in Herat, Kingdom of Afghanistan, is a Colonel General Abdul Kadir Dagarwal was politician, diplomat. Discover Abdul Qadir (Afghan communist)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

Popular As Abdul Kadir Dagarval
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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign
Born 1944, 1944
Birthday 1944
Birthplace Herat, Kingdom of Afghanistan
Date of death 22 April, 2014
Died Place Kabul, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Nationality Afghanistan

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1944

Abdul Qadir was born in Herat in the Herat Province of the Kingdom of Afghanistan in 1944.

He was an ethnic Tajik whose family hailed from Herat Province.

He went to the military school run by the Afghan Armed Forces and was trained as the pilot, qualified to fly the Mig-15, Mig-21, and Su-7, in the Soviet Union.

His education comes from the Soviet Union, having studied and excelled in Russian staff colleges.

During his career in the Afghan Air Force, he joined Communist Party and later aligned with the Parcham (Flag faction).

1973

In 1973, Colonel Qadir helped maneuver the coup d'état led by former Prime Minister DaWood Khan with support by General Abdul Karim Mustaghni, who had been Chief of General Staff of the armed forces.

President DaWood Khan promised radical land reform, the legalisation of political parties and other reforms.

Parcham was offered four minister posts in Daoud's government.

As a Parcham member, Qadir was nominated vice chief of the Afghan Air Force, while another Parcham supporter, Major Zia Mohammadzi Zia, was appointed chief of the Afghan Army.

1974

However, by 1974 Daoud removed and downgraded many of the Parcham ministers in the government.

Qadir was thus downgraded to head of Kabul's Military abattoir.

Many Parcham supporters, including Colonel Qadir, shifted allegiance to Khalq.

1978

He later served two terms as Minister of Defense, the first as part of the Taraki government from April to August 1978, and the latter as part of the Babrak Karmal government from 1982 to 1986.

Qadir's second term took place during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

In April 1978 Daoud and his hardline interior minister, General Abdul Qadir Khan Nuristani, launched a sharp government crackdown on the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).

It proved to be a miscalculation.

Colonel Qadir and Colonel Mohammad Aslam Watanjar, another leading PDPA member in the military, narrowly escaped arrest and early on 27 April Hafizullah Amin was able to smuggle out the order to restart the coup.

He also ordered the attack against the Arg, and against the Royal Palace of President Mohammad Daoud Khan.

The tank commander on the ground was Colonel Aslam Watanjar, of the 1st Battalion of the 4th Tank Brigade.

Together, the troops under their command took Kabul.

The government fell, and Daoud was killed.

At 19:00 on 27 April, Chairman Qadir made an announcement over Radio Afghanistan, in the Dari language, that a Revolutionary Council of the Armed Forces had been established by him, with himself as the leader of the country.

The council's initial statement of principles, issued late in the evening of 27 April was a noncommittal affirmation of Islamic, democratic, and nonaligned ideals:

"For the first time in the history of Afghanistan, the radio declared, the last remnants of monarchy, tyranny, despotism ... has ended, and all powers of the state are in the hands of the people of Afghanistan."

The Revolutionary Council was formed by himself, Hafizullah Amin, and Major Mohammad Aslam Watanjar, it assumed the control of the country until a civilian government was formed.

On 30 April the newly created PDPA's Revolutionary Council (with Nur Mohammad Taraki and Babrak Karmal in its leadership) issued the first of a series of fateful decrees.

The decree formally abolished the military's revolutionary council.

A second decree, issued on 1 May, named the members of the first cabinet that included Qadir as Minister of Defence.

He became minister of defense, for three months starting in May 1978.

On 6 May Qadir asked the Soviet commanders for advice on how to deal with all the people under arrest.

On 17 August, Qadir, still defence minister, was arrested for his part in a conspiracy that allegedly had been organized by the Parchams exiled abroad.

Since Qadir remained popular in the military, President Taraki did not dare to kill him and instead he was sentenced to fifteen years in jail.

The policy of Taraki and Hafizullah Amin to get rid of people they considered unsuitable in order to concentrate all power in their own hands became very apparent.

Prime Minister Amin later reported:

"The party was unable to make Qadir a true Marxist–Leninist, prepared to withstand any negative influence. That was our mistake."

1979

After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 that assassinated Hafizullah Amin, Qadir was released from jail under the new regime of Babrak Karmal, the political posts he held in the PDPA before being sent to jail were restored.

1982

He served once again as Minister of Defence (1982–1985) during the Babrak Administration.

After the Soviet Invasion, Kabul was put in a state of siege.

2014

Colonel General Abdul Kadir Dagarwal (Абдул Кадыр; Dari/Pashto: ; 1944 – April 22, 2014) was an Afghan politician, diplomat, and a military officer in the Afghan Air Force who participated in the coup d'état that created the Republic of Afghanistan under the President DaWood Khan, and later directed the Afghan Air Force and Army Air Corps squadrons that attacked the Radio-TV station during the Saur Revolution.

He served as the acting head of state for three days when the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) took power and declared the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, before handing over power to PDPA leader Noor Mohammad Taraki.