KABUL (Pajhwok): Former defence minister of Shah Nawaz Tanai has died at a hospital in the capital of Pakistan.
Arian Tanai, son of the ex-minister, told Pajhwok Afghan News his father had been in Islamabad for medical treatment and died at a hospital there.
Arian Tanai said his father died on at around 6:00am today (Monday).
The then defence minister was born in 1950 in the Dargi village of Tanai district and received higher military education.
In 1978, Tanai was an actively involved in the coup by the People’s Party against the first president of Afghanistan, Mohammad . . .
