Bismillah Khan Mohammadi

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Bismillah Khan Mohammadi
Bismillah Khan in May 2012
Defense Minister of Afghanistan
In office 19 June 2021 – 15 August 2021
President	Ashraf Ghani
Preceded by	Asadullah Khalid
Succeeded by	Abdul Qayyum Zakir (acting)
In office 15 September 2012 – 24 May 2015
President	Hamid Karzai Ashraf Ghani
Preceded by	Abdul Rahim Wardak
Succeeded by	Abdullah Habibi
Minister of Interior
In office 6 January 2010 – 15 September 2012
President	Hamid Karzai
Preceded by	Mohammad Hanif Atmar
Succeeded by	Mujtaba Patang
Chief of Staff of the Afghan National Army
In office 8 March 2002 – 6 January 2010
President	Hamid Karzai
Succeeded by	Sher Mohammad Karimi
Personal details
Born	1961 (age 62–63) Panjshir, Afghanistan
Political party	Jamiat-e Islami
Military service
Allegiance	Afghanistan
Branch/service	Afghan National Army
Rank	General
Commands	Chief of Staff of the ANA
Battles/wars	War in Afghanistan United States invasion of Afghanistan Fall of Kabul (2001) Battle of Tora Bora Taliban insurgency Operation Avalanche (Afghanistan) 2021 Taliban offensive Panjshir conflict

Bismillah Khan Mohammadi (Persian: بسم‌الله خان محمدی; born 1961, in Panjshir Province), or Bismillah Khan, is an Afghan politician who served as the defense minister of Afghanistan from 2012 to 2015 and for two months in 2021. From 2002 to 2010, he served as Chief of Staff of the Afghan National Army, and from 2010 to 2012 he held the post of Interior Minister of Afghanistan. He has an anti-Taliban background and once served as a senior commander under Ahmad Shah Massoud. Despite the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August 2021, Mohammadi claims to remain the minister of defense as part of the government of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan.^[1][2][3]