General Rasul Pahlawan was an Uzbek military leader in

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, and the brother of Uzbek leader

Abdul Malik Pahlawan Abdul Malik Pahlawan is an Afghan Uzbek warlord and politician based in Faryab Province in northern Afghanistan. He is the head of the Afghanistan Liberation Party and was heavily involved in the factional fighting that consumed Afghanistan t ...

. Rasul Pahlawan was born in

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in northern parts of Afghanistan. In June 1996, he was killed in an ambush in

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. His brother Abdul Malik, who was a then subordinate of Uzbek warlord Rashid Dostum, blamed Dostum for the murder of Rasul Pahlawan and in order to seek vengeance entered into secret negotiations with the Taliban.De Ponfilly, Christophe(2001); ''Massoud l'Afghan''; Gallimard; ; p. 75

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Afghan Uzbek politicians History of Faryab Province 1996 deaths People murdered in Afghanistan Mazar-i-Sharif People from Faryab Province 1950 births {{Afghanistan-bio-stub