Colonel Imam
Pakistani special forces commander
Died when: 66 years 320 days (802 months)Star Sign: Aries
Brigadier Sultan Amir Tarar, best known as Colonel Imam, (died January 23, 2011) was a one-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army, and a former diplomat who served as the Consul-General of Pakistan at Herat, Afghanistan.
He belonged to the Tarar Gotra of Jutts.Amir Sultan Tarar was a Pakistan Army officer and special warfare operation specialist.
He was a member of the SSG of the army, an intelligence officer of the ISI and served as Pakistani Consul General in Herat, Afghanistan.
A veteran of the Soviet–Afghan War, he is widely believed to have played a key role in the formation of the Taliban, after having helped train the Afghan Mujahidin on behalf of the United States in the 1980s. "Colonel Imam" as Tarar was also known, was a commando-guerrilla warfare specialist, and trained Mullah Omar and other Taliban factions and leaders.
Colonel Imam remained active in Afghanistan's civil war until the 2001 United States led War on Terrorism, and supported the Taliban publicly through media.
Tarar was kidnapped along with fellow ISI officer Khalid Khawaja and British journalist Asad Qureshi and Qureshi's driver Rustam Khan on March 26, 2010.
Khawaja was killed a month later.Qureshi and Khan were released in September 2010.Amir Sultan Tarar was killed in January 2011.