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General Abdul Rahim Wardak ( (عبدالرحیم وردگ)) (born in 1945 in Wardak, Afghanistan), an ethnic Pashtun, was the Defense Minister of Afghanistan. He was appointed on December 23, 2004 by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.〔(Hamid Karzai announces his new cabinet (.pdf) ), ''Afghanistan: Monthly Review'', December 2004〕 Before this appointment, Wardak was the deputy Defense Minister to the former minister, Mohammed Fahim. During the 1980s Soviet war in Afghanistan, Wardak had been a national Mujahideen resistance leader who fought the Soviet forces. He is an ethnic Pashtun from the Wardak province. His diplomacy has been instrumental in promoting ethnic reconciliation due to his lineage from tribal chieftains with strong Pashtun relationships with all ethnic groups of the country. He is fluent in Pashto, Dari (Persian), and English. General Wardak has testified in front of the U.S. Congress, and his counsel is regularly sought, on how to stabilize the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. He met with Richard Holbrooke in 2009, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan,〔MarketWatch Feb 14, 2009 http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/holbrooke-meets-afghan-officials/story.aspx?guid=%7BC5920A00-FA06-4498-879F-3DB03E6CE292%7D&dist=msr_1〕 to discuss security with NATO's defense ministers〔RTT News Feb 18, 2009 http://www.rttnews.com/Content/GeneralNews.aspx?Node=B1&Id=858188〕 and NATO's supreme allied commander for Europe, U.S. General John Craddock.〔BBC News Feb 4, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7869521.stm〕 His on-the-ground knowledge of Afghanistan is widely respected. In 2009, General Wardak spoke at a Washington think tank, Center for a New American Security, where he said "changing course, adopting a new strategy of containment or dropping the idea of a strong central government will be falling into the trap the enemy has laid, helping them to achieve their evil objectives."〔http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-us-afghan27-2009feb27,0,6699731.story〕 He signed an accord with NATO commanders for better cooperation and coordination in counter-terrorism operations.〔The Washington Independent Feb 12, 2009 http://washingtonindependent.com/30073/an-afghan-face-on-everything〕 August 2012, Wardak resigned after receiving vote of no confidence from the Afghan Parliament.〔("Afghan Defense Minister Announces Resignation" )〕〔("Afghan Defense Minister Quits, Hands Karzai a Security Headache" )〕 He was also a candidate of the 2014 presidential election. ==Early life and career== Wardak, son of Abdul Ghani, was born in the Wardak Province of Afghanistan in 1945. He attended Habibia High School in Kabul, and after graduating there he joined the Cadet University. He completed further studies in the United States and at the ''Ali Naser Academy'' in Cairo, Egypt. He has served as a Lecturer in the Cadet University and was Assistant of Protocol of the Ministry of Defense. He then served with the Mujahideen, as a military assistant officer 〔(General Abdul Raheem Wardak ), at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, DC.〕 in the Mahaz-e-Milli, as military assistant of the Trilateral Unity, and as a member of ''Itehad-e-Mujahidin'' and commander of the Jihadi fronts of Mahaz-e-Milli. He joined one of the seven parties as a member of the military committee composed of "military advisers and senior staff officers from each Party."〔Yousaf, Mohammad and Mark Adkin. ''Afghanistan the Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower''. Haverton: Casemate, 1992, p. 40.〕 Pir Sayyed Ahmad Gailani lead the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan party of which then Colonel Wardak was a member. Gailani and Mujaddadi were the two moderate leaders of the group of seven. Wardak, as a notable Mujahideen commander, witnessed the "occupation and destruction of the key Resistance complexes at Zhawar in Paktia Province in Eastern Afghanistan by Soviet and DRA forces in the spring of 1986" and described the attacks as "the heaviest since the invasion."〔Bodansky, Yossef. ''Afghanistan: The Great Game Revisited.'' Edited by Rosanne Klass. New York: Freedom House, 1987, p. 261-262.〕 He testified several times before the U.S Congress during the war against the Soviets. In 1989, he was wounded by a Scud missile and received treatment in the United States. After the fall of the Najibullah regime in 1992, Wardak was a member of the Security Committee of Kabul City, Chief of the Army Staff, Director of the Military Officers' Society, Director of the Education Commission, member of the National Army Commission, Deputy Defence Minister, Director of Disarmament Programme and Director of Reform of the National Army. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abdul Rahim Wardak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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