Famous People with Name Mohammad

Mohammad Qasim Fahim            Origin/Culture/Country: Afghan

Mohammad Qasim Fahim: a prominent Afghan military commander and politician. He was the Defense Minister of the Afghan Transitional Administration, beginning in 2002 and also served as vice president. Later Fahim was removed as defense minister by President Hamid Karzai on December 23, 2004, as the transitional administration gave way to a popularly-elected administration. Fahim is a member of Afghanistan's Tajik ethnic group. Fahim is the recipient of the Ahmad Shah Baba Medal. He is fluent in Persian, Pashto and Arabic. He is affiliated with Jamiat Islami party of Afghanistan.

Mohammad Hasan Sharq            Origin/Culture/Country: Afghan

Mohammad Hasan Sharq: was an Afghan politician during the communist regime of Afghanistan. Sharq became Prime Minister of the Soviet-backed government, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.He was selected as a compromise candidate after the Loya Jirga ratified a new constitution in 1987. However, the power of his office was relatively small compared with the ones of the Presidency.Sharq served as spokesman for earlier Prime Minister Mohammad Daoud Khan during the Kingdom of Afghanistan. When Daoud took over the Cabinet Posts of Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Foreign Minister, He appointed Sharq as his Deputy Prime Minister.[1]

Mohammad Yunus Khalis            Origin/Culture/Country: Afghan

Mohammad Yunus Khalis: was a mujahideen commander in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. His party was called Hezb-i-Islami ("Party of Islam"), the same as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's party. The two are commonly differentiated as Hezb-e Islami Khalis and Hezb-i-Islami (Gulbuddin).He was a hardline fundamentalist. After the fall of the communist government in 1992, his forces controlled Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan.

Mohammad Ghous            Origin/Culture/Country: Afghan

Mohammad Ghous: was among the leadership of the Taliban which ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. He served as foreign minister of Afghanistan from September 1996, when the Taliban captured Kabul until June 1997, when he and some other Taliban leaders were kidnapped by opposition forces at Mazar-i-Sharif in the northern part of the country. Ghous reportedly escaped in September 1997 when the Taliban captured that city, but he was not reappointed as foreign minister, and his whereabouts since then is not well known.

Mohammad Yousef Pashtun            Origin/Culture/Country: Afghan

Mohammad Yousef Pashtun: the Minister of Urban Development and Housing for Afghanistan. He previously served as Governor of Kandahar province, in 2003 replacing Gul Agha Sherzai.[1]Yousef Pashtun, son of Brigadier Mohammad Ghani Khan, was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on November 15, 1947. An ethnic Pashtun, he is fluent in Pashto, Dari, English and Arabic. He graduated from Ahmad Shah Baba High School in 1965. He began studying Engineering at Kabul University, but soon received a USAID/Kabul University scholarship to attend American University of Beirut in Lebanon. He earned his Bachelors degree here in Engineering, also completing two Masters degrees, in Architecture (1973) and Urban Design and Planning (1977).