serviceyears branch commands death_place birth_place allegiance unit awards battles nickname rank article_title name
1974 -- 1994 pak 7th ssg reconnaissance regiment north waziristan , pakistan chattal , chakwal district , pakistan pak pakistan 15ff regiment special service group sitara-e-jurat tamgha-e-basalat sitara-e-imtiaz -lrb- military -rrb- soviet civil war of 1996 pakistan war in afghanistan war in afghanistan civil unrest in afghanistan afghan colonel imam file : colonel pak army.jpg pak colonel colonel imam
 amir sultan tarar
colonel imam

colonel sultan amir tarar -lrb- died january 2011 -rrb- , best known as colonel imam , was a pakistan army officer and special warfare operation specialist .
he was a member of the special service group -lrb- ssg -rrb- of the army , an intelligence officer of the inter-services intelligence -lrb- isi -rrb- and served as pakistani consul general at herat , afghanistan .
a veteran of the soviet war in afghanistan , he is widely believed to have played a key role in the formation of the taliban , after having helped train the afghan mujahidin on behalf of the united states in the 1980s .
colonel imam , who was a commando-guerrilla warfare specialist , had trained mullah omar and other taliban factions .
colonel imam remained active in afghanistan 's civil war until the 2001 united states led war on terrorism , and supported the taliban publicly through media .
he was kidnapped along with fellow isi officer khalid khawaja , british journalist asad qureshi and qureshi 's driver rustam khan on march 26 , 2010 .
khawaja was killed a month later .
qureshi and khan were released in september 2010 .
imam was killed in january 2011 .
