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Colonel Sultan Amir Tarar (died January 2011), best known as Colonel Imam, was a Pakistan Army officer and special warfare operation specialist. He was a member of the Special Service Group (SSG) of the army, an intelligence officer of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and served as Pakistani Consul General at Herat, Afghanistan.〔Matinuddin, Kamal(1999) The Taliban Phenomenon: Afghanistan 1994-1997 p 63. Oxford University Press US, ISBN 0-19-579274-2, ISBN 978-0-19-579274-4 〕 A veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he is widely believed to have played a key role in the formation of the Taliban, after having helped train the Afghan Mujahidin on behalf of the United States in the 1980s. Colonel Imam, who was a commando-guerrilla warfare specialist, had trained Mullah Omar and other Taliban factions. Colonel Imam remained active in Afghanistan's civil war until the 2001 United States led War on Terrorism, and supported the Taliban publicly through media.〔 He was kidnapped along with fellow ISI officer Khalid Khawaja, British journalist Asad Qureshi〔"(No clue of Brit filmmaker kidnapped in Pak )". ''The Gaea Times''. April 8, 2010.〕 and Qureshi's driver Rustam Khan on March 26, 2010. Khawaja was killed a month later. Qureshi and Khan were released in September 2010. Imam was killed in January 2011.〔Perlez, Jane, "Onetime Taliban Handler Dies In Their Hands", ''New York Times'', 25 January 2011, p. 6.〕〔"(Former ISI official Col Imam killed in North Waziristan )". ''The Nation''. 23 January 2011.〕 ==Education and military career== Imam was a graduate of Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) in Kakul (located near Abbottabad in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan), and of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States. After his graduation from PMA, he joined the Pakistan Army's 15th Frontier Force Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant. He was sent to the United States in 1974, and was trained shoulder-to-shoulder among with United States Army Special Forces. Upon his graduation from the Special Forces School, he was awarded American Green Beret by his training commander. Following his return to Pakistan, Imam joined the Special Service Group (SSG). In the 1980s, he participated in Soviet war in Afghanistan, notably the Battle for Hill 3234. Colonel Imam was increasingly involved in Afghanistan's politics even after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. After the Soviet-Afghan war, Colonel Imam supported and trained Taliban fighters independently. It was alleged even in the 2000s that he still independently supported the Taliban independence movement in Afghanistan.〔(Mission: Difficult ) By Rory Callinan/Tarin Kowt Thursday, January 24, 2008. TIME magazine〕 He was a disciple of Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan, the current sheikh of silsila Naqshbandia Owaisia. He was according to some deeply respected amongst Afghan leaders unlike some other Pakistani leaders dealing with Afghanistan. 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「Colonel Imam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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