Yasin Zia

Lieutenant General Yasin Zia
یاسین ضیا
Zia greeting Afghanistan National Army troops
Chief of General Staff of Afghanistan
In office 7 July 2020 – 19 June 2021
Preceded by	Bismillah Waziri
Succeeded by	Wali Mohammad Ahmadzai
Acting Defense Minister
In office 19 March 2021 – 19 June 2021
Preceded by	Asadullah Khalid
Succeeded by	Bismillah Khan Mohammadi
Deputy Defense Minister
In office 27 March 2019 – 7 July 2020
Deputy National Security Adviser
In office December 2017 – March 2019
Governor of Takhar
In office 12 October 2015 – 28 May 2017
Deputy	Farid Zaki
Preceded by	Abdul Latif Ibrahimi
Succeeded by	Fazlullah Mujadedi
Personal details
Born	Kabul, Afghanistan[1]
Ethnicity	Tajik

General Mohammad Yasin Zia (Dari: محمد یاسین ضیا), is an Afghan military officer and politician. He is a former Chief of General Staff, former Deputy Defense Minister, and former governor of Takhar Province, Afghanistan. Zia has also served as head of Afghanistan's counter terrorism unit (2011) and as the deputy director of the National Directorate of Security (2011–2015).^[1][2] In 2022, he was reported to be one of the leaders of the anti-Taliban Afghanistan Freedom Front resistance movement.^[3]

Zia was born in Shakar Dara District, Kabul, Afghanistan into a Tajik family.

He also has a degree in military and intelligence affairs and a background in Jamiat-e Islami.^[1][2]