
Balkhi (died 5 September 1986) was an Afghan Mujahideen leader who fought in the Soviet-Afghan War. One of the commanders of the base at Khost during the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, Balkhi fought to recapture the eastern Mujahideen weapons cache but was killed by Soviet troops.
Biography[]
Balkhi was born in Afghanistan to a Pashtun family, and in the 1980s he emerged as a leader of the Mujahideen resistance against the Soviet Union during the Soviet-Afghan War. Based in Khost, he led an armed group of around fifteen militants, and fought against the Soviets when they attempted to reclaim the city in September 1986. Balkhi led his militants in an effort to reclaim a weapons cache from the Soviets, but he was killed by sniper fire from a bridge on a cliff above the valley.