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Abdul Ahad Karzai
Abdul Ahad Karzai
(1922 – 14 July 1999) was a
politician
in Afghanistan, who served as the
Deputy Speaker
of the
National Assembly of Afghanistan
under
King
Zahir Shah
in the 1960s. He was the son of Khair Mohammad Khan and brother of
Habibullah
and
Azizullah Karzai
. His sons are the former
Afghan President
Hamid Karzai
and his brothers
Ahmed Wali
,
Mahmud
and
Quayum
. He is also uncle of
Hekmat Karzai
. As head of the
Popalzai
Pashtun
tribe, Abdul Ahad Karzai moved with his family from
Kandahar
to the capital
Kabul
upon his election to the Parliament. He criticised the communist government in Afghanistan and was imprisoned for three years, at which point his family's properties were confiscated.
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