Mullah Mohammad Fazil Akhund Mazloom (1968-) was a Taliban commander during the Afghanistan War.
Biography[]
Fazil Mazloom was born to a Kakar Pashtun family in Charchno, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan in 1968, and he was said to have been a product of a Pakistani madrassa. He fought alongside the Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War, and he bonded with Islamist forces in Pakistan, as well as the ISI. He went on to become a Taliban commander during the Afghan Civil War, rising to be its chief-of-staff by 2001. Mazloom was responsible for the massacre of thousands of Shi'ites between 1998 and 2001 and for the execution of eight Iranian diplomats in Mazar-i-Sharif, and he commanded the Shomali offensive in 1999. He was captured by the US during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan following the Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif in November, and he was held at Guantanamo Bay.