Abdul salam zaeef biography examples

2000–2001 Afghan ambassador to Pakistan

MullahAbdul Salam Zaeef (; born 1967) is an Afghan affiliated with the Taliban political / militant organization and a former Afghan ambassador to Pakistan before the US invasion of Afghanistan.^[2]

He was detained in Pakistan in the fall of 2001 and held until 2005 in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.^[2] The United Nations removed Zaeef from its list of terrorists in July 2010.^[3]

Early life

Zaeef was born in 1967 to a poor family in the small village of Zangiabad, between the Arghandab and Dori rivers, in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan.

His family had moved there a few years earlier, because of fighting over land in their home village of Jaldak in Zabul Province. His uncle, Mullah Nezam, was accused of killing 16 people in the fighting and was later killed by government forces.

Zaeef's mother died when he was one or two years old. The family moved