Mohammed Daud Daud

General Mohammad Daud Daud
Daud in January 2010
Native name	محمد داود داود
Born	(1969-01-01)1 January 1969 Takhar Province, Afghanistan
Died	28 May 2011(2011-05-28) (aged 42) Takhar Province, Afghanistan
Service/branch	Military of Afghanistan
Years of service	1980s–2011
Rank	General, Police Chief, Deputy Interior Minister
Commands	Commander during the Soviet–Afghan War Commander of the anti-Taliban United Islamic Front under Ahmad Shah Massoud Commander of the Kunduz Military Division (October 2001) Police Chief of Northern Afghanistan and Commander of the 303 Pamir Corps (2010–2011)
Battles/wars	Soviet–Afghan War War in Afghanistan (1996–2001) War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

Mohammed Daud Daud (Persian: محمد داود داود) (January 1969 – 28 May 2011), also known as General Daud Daud, an ethnic Tajik,^[1][2] was the police chief in northern Afghanistan and the commander of the 303 Pamir Corps. He was an opponent of the Afghan Taliban.

Daud studied engineering in college.^[3] After graduating from college in 1991, he defected from the Afghan Army and joined the forces of Ahmad Shah Massoud against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.^[4] After the retreat of Soviet troops and the defeat of the Afghan communist regime, Daud remained in Takhar province of Afghanistan. Ahmad Shah Massoud had ordered him to guard northern areas and to keep his forces out of the capital Kabul. When the Taliban took power in Kabul, Daud served as a leading military commander of the anti-Taliban United Front under the command of Ahmad Shah Massoud,^[5] which later spearheaded the defeat of the Taliban. In October 2001, Daud was directly responsible for retaking the city of Kunduz from an Al Qaeda-Taliban alliance.

After the fall of the Taliban regime, he was appointed a Deputy Interior Minister for Counter Narcotics in Afghanistan.^[6] His campaign against opium poppy cultivation was successful in several provinces, including Ogar, Ghazni, Wardak, Paktia, Paktika and Panjshir.^[7]

In 2010 he was appointed police chief of Afghanistan's northern provinces, overseeing Interior Ministry forces and directly commanding his own police elite force called Pamir 303. An opponent of the Taliban, Daud was assassinated on 28 May 2011 in a Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) bomb attack in Taloqan, Afghanistan.^[8]