Sayed Jafar Naderi
Sayed Jafar Naderi | |
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| Security Advisor to First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum | |
| Assumed office 17 November 2014 | |
| Governor of Baghlan Province | |
| In office 1989–1992 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sayed Jafar Naderi May 5, 1965 |
| Party | National Solidarity Party of Afghanistan |
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| Military career | |
| Allegiance | Democratic Republic of Afghanistan |
| Branch | Afghan National Army |
| Service years | 1984–1992 |
| Rank | General |
| Unit | 80th Infantry Division |
| Commands | 80th Infantry Division (1989–1992) |
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Sayed Jafar Naderi (born May 5, 1965), also known as Jeff Naderi, is an Afghan military commander and politician who served as governor of Baghlan Province during the late Soviet–Afghan War and early 1990s. He is the son of Sayed Mansur Naderi, a prominent Ismaili religious and political leader in Afghanistan.
Naderi commanded the 80th Infantry Division, a predominantly Ismaili militia that controlled Baghlan Province during the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the subject of the 1989 documentary Warlord of Kayan, directed by Jeff B. Harmon, which won the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival.