Commander Shafi Hazara

Shafi was killed on 22 August 1996. His assassination took place in the home of Karim Khalili central Bamiyan. Karim Khalili and his collaborators killed Shafi and shortly after attacked his Six Bridge post killing one additional soldier and wounding many. His assassination is acknowledged as a betrayal by the Hazara people. Many essential details still have remained unclear. He was buried in Bamiyan by the local people but later transferred to his hometown by his soldiers. Shafi's body rests in the Dahn Khakrez cemetery in Turkman Valley.

On May 1, 1992, he returned to Kabul and formed a six-man unit and started his armed struggle against the communist government. In the first battles, he captured the state security office department, the Ministry of Interior, the sixth security district, and Mahtab Qala and Dasht-e Barchi security checkpoints. Soon he would become one of the senior commanders of Hezb Wahdat. Shafi formed Brigade Two infantry unit. It was not long before hundreds of young men joined him. In the first imposed war, they cleared the opposition from many areas of west Kabul. After gaining many resources, which included all kinds of light and heavy weapons. Under Shafi's command, Brigade Two forces managed most of the front and strategic defense lines of west Kabul Kabul. He participated in essential operations as a prominent and leading commander.

Commander Shafi Hazara (Dari: قومندان شفیع هزاره) was an ethnic Hazara military commander in Afghanistan. He was a senior commander during the resistance of west Kabul and Hazarajat between 1991 and 1996. In the 1990s he led Hezbe Wahdat Brigade 2 military wing against rival militias and, against the Taliban takeover.

Shafi was born in March 1964 in Chindawol, Kabul. Originally from the Turkman Valley, Parwan province. He went to Parsa Elementary School and Ansari High School. After graduating, Shafi went to his home village, the Turkman Valley, and joined Sazman Al-Nasr in Jihad against the Red Army of Russia.