Father Of Taliban.

Introduction:-

Brigadier Amir Sultan Tarar widely known as COL Imam was born on 4 july 1944 in Chattal district Chakwal.In 1966 he joined Pakistan Army and was commissioned in 15 FF Regt. In 1974 he was sent to USA where he joined the joint special forces school and successfully passed all the combat courses, after returning to Pakistan he joined Special services Group (SSG).

Role in Afghan jihad:-
In 1980 he actively played role in the Afghan Jihad , where he met and cemented very good relations with Gulbaddin Hekmatyar , Ahmed Shah Massoud , Burhanuddin Rabbani , jalaluddin Haqqani and many other Afghan warlords. In a TV interview Col Imam also confessed that Pakistan Army trained and provide weapons to the Afghan Mujaheddin.it also widely believed that Col imam  had even trained Mullah Umar.

in 1986 Col Imam and charlie Wilson (a US representative) visited a camp where the mujaheddin were being trained. He was very happy to see the mujaheddin getting a best training.He called a local commander (Ameer Pacha Gul) and asked him "Are you guys happy"?.The commander answered "we are not happy because the weapon is good for Surface to surface but it is not good for surface to air .The weapon provided to us are not capable of bringing down air craft or helicopter. Charlie was shocked by the answer he said "colonel he has given me a big slap on my face I will go back and get him a stinger". The Americans then provided about 2000 stinger missiles to mujaheddin.
Col Imam also took part in the famous Jalalabad Operation where he met Osama Bin Laden.

in 1994 col Imam got retirement  and was then made the consul general of Pakistan in Herat.

Meanwhile in Pakistan Benazir Bhutto came to power and called back all officers from Afghanistan but Col Imam remained in Afghanistan till 9/11.

Post 9/11:-

After the advent of Taliban in pakistan in 2007 Col Imam Was against The TTP and its other all splinter groups but supported the Afghan Taliban. In march 2010 Col imam , Asad Qureshi (journalist) and Khalid khwaja (an ex officer of ISI) were kidnapped from Islamabad and brought to Miranshah but Asad Qureshi was freed after some days while khalid khwaja was killed .Col Imam remained in captivity for a long time during which some videos also surfaced in media in which Col imam appealed to Government to accept the demands of TTP or he will be killed but sadly after months long of captivity Col Imam was also killed.