Facts: - profession: military officer - imagesize: 150px - death place: odessa , ukraine - order: minister of internal affairs minister of communications - successor: ahmad mohammad faqir sherjan mazoryar '' unknown '' sayed mohammad gulabzoy shah massoud hafizullah amin raz muhammad paktin faqir - party: people 's democratic party of afghanistan - death date: 24 november 2000 - predecessor: shahnawaz nur ahmad nur mohammad zarif abdul karim attayee tanai abdul qadir sayed mohammad gulabzoy sherjan mazdoryar - office: minister of defence - term end: april september 1979 1979 1988 july 1978 1992 28 july 1979 6 march 1990 14 - term start: 6 8 july 1978 10 january 1980 30 april 1978 march 1990 april 15 november 1988 28 july - birth date: 1951 - name: mohammad aslam watanjar - birth place: khost province , afghanistan Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of mohammad aslam watanjar .
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mohammad aslam watanjar -lrb- 1946 -- 24 november 2000 -rrb- was an afghan general and politician .he played a significant role in the coup in 1978 that killed the afghan president mohammad daud khan and started the '' saur revolution '' .watanjar later became a member of the politburo in the soviet-backed democratic republic of afghanistan , playing prominent roles in the communist coup as well as the coup that overthrew the constitutional monarchy .