Ahmed Sharif Rostam Muhammad Known as Ahe Shefa'ama Qawilayi, he was born in 1945 in the village of Kaniskan at the foot of Mount Surin. He was a villager and was busy with farming. His level of education was primary. Three of Ahmed Sharif's brothers, named Tayer Sharif (1984 in the village of Shanir in the Sharazur region), Arkan Sharif (1986 at the foot of Mount Surin), and Majid Sharif (1996 in Erbil Governorate), were martyred. The name of Ahmed Sharif's wife is Khal Khas Saeed, his son's name is Dler, and his daughter's name is Qandil.
Struggle RecordAhmed Sharif became a Peshmerga in 1961 at the headquarters of the Khabat Battalion of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He participated in the battles of Banishar, Yalampe, Darbandikhan, the Sharazur Plain, the Battle of Mount Qandil, the Battle of Halabja the Martyr, the Battle of Arbat, Penjwen, the Battle of Qarge, Wilara, and the Battle of Kozerqa. He was wounded in the battles of Darbandikhan, Halabja the Martyr, and Penjwen. In 1967, he received the rank of squad leader. In 1969, he became the person in charge of the military wing of the Khabat Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1970, he received the rank of branch head of the headquarters in the Khabat Force.
On June 2, 1974, Ahmed Sharif and several comrades went towards Mount Azmar to the Hawraman region to hold a meeting with Fattah Agha, the commander of the Khabat Force, as the order for the promotion of Ahmed Sharif and Kamal Hawari to battalion commander had returned. However, when they approached the village of Kozerqa between the district of Said Sadiq and the sub-district of Arbat, they saw a convoy of Ba'ath regime soldiers on their way to attack the district of Darbandikhan and the district of Said Sadiq. Ahmed Sharif and his comrades confronted the military convoy and, as a result, destroyed the convoy, and Ahmed Sharif and three of his comrades, Kamal Hawari, Ali Mazali, and Fattah-e Sur, were martyred.
Source:Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Committee.