Afghan Biographies

Saadat, Khoshal Gen


Name Saadat, Khoshal Gen
Ethnic backgr. Pashtun
Date of birth 1985
Function/Grade General Director of Public Protection Force
History and Biodata

2. Previous Function:
Commander of the Special Forces unit (Crisis Response Unit) for Kabul and the surrounding provinces (20130810)
Ministry of Interior Senior Deputy Minister Security (20190202)
General Director of Public Protection Force (20200412)
3. Biodata:
Gen Khoshal Sadat Khushal Sadat was born 1985 in Afghanistan.  A graduate of the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, Britain’s officer training college, as well as the U.S. Army Command and Staff College, Khoshal joined the police Special Forces in 2003, gaining an inside view on problems that have dogged the security forces for years.  He is now Afghanistan's Police Chief. Khoshal said he had sacked 30 of 34 provincial police chiefs for incompetence or corruption since taking charge, replacing them with young Special Forces officers in his own mould. He has also moved to rotate police more often and pull them off isolated posts, where they are regularly picked off by the Taliban. Casualties, he says, have been cut from 50 a day to around 90 a week.

Extortion has also been reduced, he said, by cutting down informal roadside checkpoints where police extorted money from truckers. Twice a week he talks with provincial commanders through video links, getting updates and listening to complaints ranging from lack of ammunition and supplies to a shortage of manpower.

He was sacked in 16th January 2020 for unknown reasons.(20200123) It seemed the operation of Nizamuddin Qaisari’s arrest was not authorized by the officials in Kabul. The fact-finding committee of the Afghan Parliament on Qaisari’s case underlined that Khushal Sadat, former security deputy for MOI and the former commander of 209 Shaheen Corps, Wali Mohammad Ahmadzai, led the assignment to take Qaisari into custody, adding that they didn’t have a warrant by the court, however, the Balkh police chief said that they had been ordered by the central government. A fact-finding committee said that Qaisari’s arrest was conducted without a warrant by the Attorney General or the Supreme Court and/or any orders from the Ministry of Defense or Interior Affairs.(20200124)


Khushal speaks Pashtu, Dari and English

Last Modified 2020-11-10
Established 2019-06-04