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Bismillah Khan Mohammadi | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Bismillah Khan in May 2012 | |
| Defense Minister of Afghanistan | |
| In office 19 June 2021 – 15 August 2021 | |
| President | Ashraf Ghani |
| Preceded by | Asadullah Khalid |
| Succeeded by | Abdul Qayyum Zakir (acting) |
| In office 15 September 2012 – 24 May 2015 | |
| President | Hamid Karzai Ashraf Ghani |
| Preceded by | Abdul Rahim Wardak |
| Succeeded by | Abdullah Habibi |
| Minister of Interior | |
| In office 6 January 2010 – 15 September 2012 | |
| President | Hamid Karzai |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Hanif Atmar |
| Succeeded by | Mujtaba Patang |
| Chief of Staff of the Afghan National Army | |
| In office 8 March 2002 – 6 January 2010 | |
| President | Hamid Karzai |
| Succeeded by | Sher Mohammad Karimi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Panjshir, Afghanistan |
| Political party | Jamiat-e Islami |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Afghanistan |
| Branch/service | Afghan National Army |
| Rank | General |
| Commands | Chief of Staff of the ANA |
| Battles/wars | War in Afghanistan
United States invasion of Afghanistan Panjshir conflict |
Bismillah Khan Mohammadi (Persian: بسمالله خان محمدی; born 1961, in Panjshir Province), or Bismillah Khan, is an Afghan politician who served as the defense minister of Afghanistan from 2012 to 2015 and for two months in 2021. From 2002 to 2010, he served as Chief of Staff of the Afghan National Army, and from 2010 to 2012 he held the post of Interior Minister of Afghanistan. He has an anti-Taliban background and once served as a senior commander under Ahmad Shah Massoud. Despite the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August 2021, Mohammadi claims to remain the minister of defense as part of the government of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan.[1][2][3]
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