Yasin Zia
Lieutenant General Yāsin Ziā | |
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یاسین ضیا | |
Zia greeting Afghan National Army troops in 2020 | |
| Chief of General Staff of Afghanistan | |
| In office 7 July 2020 – 19 June 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Bismillah Waziri |
| Succeeded by | Wali Mohammad Ahmadzai |
| Acting Defense Minister | |
| In office 19 March 2021 – 19 June 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Asadullah Khalid |
| Succeeded by | Bismillah Khan Mohammadi |
| Deputy Defense Minister | |
| In office 27 March 2019 – 7 July 2020 | |
| Deputy National Security Adviser | |
| In office December 2017 – March 2019 | |
| Governor of Takhar | |
| In office 12 October 2015 – 28 May 2017 | |
| Deputy | Farid Zaki |
| Preceded by | Abdul Latif Ibrahimi |
| Succeeded by | Fazlullah Mujadedi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kabul, Kingdom of Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | Tajik |
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General Mohammad Yāsin Ziā (Persian: محمد یاسین ضیا), is an Afghan military officer and politician. He is a former Chief of General Staff, former Deputy Defense Minister, and former governor of Takhar Province, Afghanistan. Zia has also served as head of Afghanistan's counter terrorism unit (2011) and as the deputy director of the National Directorate of Security (2011–2015). In 2022, he was reported to be one of the leaders of the anti-Taliban Afghanistan Freedom Front resistance movement.
Zia was born in Shakar Dara District, Kabul, Afghanistan into a Tajik family.
He also has a degree in military and intelligence affairs and a background in Jamiat-e Islami.