Colonel Sultan Amir Tarar was born in village CHATTAL District Chakwal 100 km away from Rawalpindi, his real date of birth is 04-04-1944 on tuesday,he best known as Colonel Imam, was a retired 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. 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 Pakistan Govt. in the 1980s. Colonel Imam, who was a commando-guerrilla warfare specialist, had trained Mullah Omar and other Taliban factions.Known as Ustaad (teacher) of Mullah Umer and the other important Afghan Mujahideen, Colonel Imam remained active in Afghanistans civil war until the 2001 United States led War on Terrorism, and supported the Taliban publicly through media. 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 Armys 15th Frontier Force Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant. His unit 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 Charat. In the 1980s, he participated in Soviet war in Afghanistan, notably the Battle for Hill 3234.He serve Pakistan Army from 1974-1994 and retired at rank of Colonel.He was known as colonel angel in Pakistan army. Colonel Imam was increasingly involved in Afghanistans 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.After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Colonel Imam was invited to the White House by the then President George Bush Sr, and was given a piece of the Berlin Wall with a brass plaque inscribed: To the one who dealt the first blow. In the 2000s, Western intelligence agencies believed Imam was dead among a group of renegade officers from Pakistans ISI who continued to help the Taliban after Pakistan turned against them following the attacks of September 11, 2001. After 2001 he supported the Taliban independence movement for Afghanistan, independently and publicly through media. He was kidnapped along with fellow ISI officer Khalid Khawaja, British journalist Asad Qureshi and driver Rustam Khan on March 23, 2010. Khawaja was martyred a month later.Khawajas body was found near a stream in Karam Kot in April 2010 with a note attached saying he was with the CIA and ISI, about seven kilometres south of North Waziristan’s main town of Mirali.Qureshi and Khan were released in September 2010. Imams captors refuse to release his body to his family unless a ransom is paid. Last year in March, Colonel (R) Imam, former ISI officer Khalid Khawaja, journalist Asad Qureshi and Qureshis driver Rustman Khan were abducted by an unknown militant group which called itself Asian Tigers. Colonel imam was martyred by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Mehsud faction on 17 February 2011, as documented in a video. The video shows the group’s chief Hakimullah Mehsud. Both the Haqqani network and the Afghan Taliban were against the execution.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 11:40:23 +0000
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