Tuesday, 24 August 2010 13:03
Ethnicity: Tajik
Ahmad Zia Massoud, the brother of the assassinated mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, represented the Jamiat-e-Islami group in Peshawar during the resistance against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
He travelled abroad to promote the mujahideen's cause to the wider world, forging diplomatic ties in the process.
When Rabbani came to power in 1992, he appointed Massoud, his son-in-law, as his special advisor and representative because of the invaluable contacts he had built up on his trips abroad.
He took up arms again with the National Front after the Taliban came to power in 1996.
When Karzai became president, Massoud was appointed ambassador to the Russian Federation before being handed responsibility for Armenia, Georgia and Belarus.
He had been Karzai's vice-president from 2005 to 2009 and is married to Rabbani's daughter.
He is not working in the Afghan government now.
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