President Hamid Karzai has appointed Lt.-Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, the Taliban’s Army Chief during the 1990s, as the Chief of the Afghan National Army, according to a Dari-language Afghan daily.
Sher Mohammad Karimi worked as Army Chief during the Taliban regime and coordinated many operations against the Northern Alliance parties which are now in power, according to a report in the Dari-language newspaper Roznama Mandegar.
Lt.-Gen. Mohammad Ikram was appointed as the Deputy Army Chief.
Karimi’s appointment came a day after the Afghan parliament approved the former army chief, General Bismillah Muhammadi, as the country’s new interior minister, the report added.
Source: Roznama Mandegar, Afghanistan, July 1, 2010
