Saleh Mohammad Registani

Saleh Mohammad Registani (born 1963-2021) was a Persian author and Afghan politician from Panjshir.[1][2] He was an ethnic Tajik. During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Registani joined Ahmad Shah Massoud's forces. In the late 1990s he was appointed as the military attaché of the ousted-Rabbani government to Dushanbe, Tajikistan. After the fall of the Taliban, he was appointed as the military attache to Moscow, Russia, where he served till 2004.

During the parliamentary elections of 2005, he was elected representative of the Panjsher province to Afghanistan's House of Representatives or Wolesi Jirga, where he had served till 2021. He was reported to have been killed while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.[3]

He was the author of the Persian language Massoud: Shaheed Raahe Sulh wa Azadi.

References
  1. Salih Mohammad Registani: Biography, retrieved 9 October 2016
  2. "Minority leaders leaving Karzai's side over leader's overtures to insurgents". The Washington Post. 22 July 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  3. "Chief commander of Panjshir resistance forces Saleh Mohammed killed, claim Taliban". India Today. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
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