Muhammad Qadir Ahmad, known as Mamosta Muhammad Mulla Qadir and Lajani, a theologian, writer, and politician, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Year 1958, and in 1970 was a member of the preparatory committee for the 8th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in the 8th Congress was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the 9th Congress of the Party, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in Year 1985 he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In Year 1992, he was elected by the voters of Southern Kurdistan as a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly on the Kurdistan Democratic Party list for the first term. On April 25, 1993, he was appointed Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs in the second cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government. In Year 2005, he was an instructor for the Party Congresses course in the eleventh session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Training Institute in the city of Erbil, and in Year 2007, he was an instructor for the Party History course in the sixteenth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Training Institute in the city of Erbil.

Biography

He was born in the city of Erbil in Year 1934, and was appointed as a teacher in Year 1960. On September 6, 1961, he participated in the strike of the brave to prevent the Iraqi police convoy that was coming from Kirkuk to Erbil to break the Erbil strike. In Year 1962, he was a member of the Erbil branch of the Kurdistan Teachers Union, in Year 1962 he was one of the founders of the Kurdistan Teachers Union, and in Year 1962 he was a member of the editorial board of the Rezhna magazine. In Year 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he went to Iran as a refugee and was appointed by President Mustafa Barzani as the supervisor of the committee for overseeing refugees in Iran. On Wednesday, October 6, 1993, at the Bashmakh border crossing on the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate, as the Minister of Endowments of the Kurdistan Regional Government, he welcomed the procession of President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) and Idris Barzani (1944-1987) who were heading from the Islamic Republic of Iran to their final resting place in the village of Barzan, affiliated with Erbil Governorate. He passed away on Tuesday, January 14, 2019, in the city of Erbil. On Wednesday, January 15, 2019, by President Masoud Barzani condolences were sent to his family. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian languages.

Struggle Record

He was one of the supporters of the Iraqi Communist Party, but in Year 1956 he moved away from supporting the Iraqi Communist Party. In Year 1956, he was one of the founders of the Kurdistan Faqis Union in the city of Erbil, and in Year 1956 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union. In Year 1958, on the occasion of the return of President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) from the Soviet Union, he led an Erbil delegation to meet President Barzani in the city of Baghdad. In Year 1958, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in Year 1960 he was the head of the organization department of the Erbil Plain organization committee affiliated with the Erbil committee affiliated with the Second Branch committee. In Year 1960, he was a representative of the 5th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In Year 1964, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. In Year 1964, during the split of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he stood against the decisions of the Mawat expanded meeting that was organized by the Political Bureau wing and supported the wing of President Mustafa Barzani In early May of Year 1964, he was a member of the preparatory committee for the 6th Congress. In Year 1964, by the votes of the members of the 6th Congress he was elected as a member of the High Supervisory and Inspection Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the same year, he was a representative of the Revolutionary Command Council Congress in Iraqi Kurdistan.

At the end of Year 1964, he was appointed as an administrator of the fifth staff of the Second Branch committee. In Year 1964, he was appointed as the head of the Koya district committee affiliated with the Second Branch committee. In December 1965, he was a member of the committee for collecting donations from the wealthy of the city of Erbil for the Peshmerga forces of the Erbil border, and this work was successfully completed with the cooperation of lawyer Muhsin Dizayi. In September 1965, he was appointed as an administrator of the sixth staff of the Second Branch committee. On March 13, 1965, he participated in the Battle of Sela (Erbil). In Year 1965, he participated in the Safin epic. In Year 1966, he was the head of the Erbil district committee affiliated with the Second Branch committee. In that same year, he took on the task of being the head of the Kifri district committee and an administrator of the Third Branch committee. In Year 1966, he was a member of the preparatory committee for the 7th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In Year 1967, he was made the Director of Education of Erbil in the Aylul Revolution In Year 1967, he was temporarily appointed as the head of the Teachers and Employees Organization Committee in the Erbil district committee affiliated with the Second Branch committee to strengthen the organizations. In Year 1967, for the third time, he was appointed as an administrator of the eighth staff of the Second Branch committee. In November 1967, he was the editor-in-chief of Safin magazine, the organ of the Second Branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. During the years (1967-1968), he published poetry in Safin magazine under the pseudonym Lajani.

On April 15, 1967, he was a representative of the Kani Samak military-political conference in the village of Rezhanok in Erbil Governorate, and in 1967 he spent a year living in hiding in the city of Erbil to manage the organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. At the end of 1968, he was appointed as the Director of Education of Erbil by the Information and Health Department of the Executive Office (Al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) affiliated with the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1968, he was appointed for the fourth time as an administrator of the ninth staff of the Branch Two Committee. In 1968, he completed a course in explosives engineering. At the beginning of 1969, he was appointed for the fifth time as an administrator of the tenth staff of the Branch Two Committee. At the end of 1969, he was appointed for the sixth time as an administrator of Branch Two. In 1970, he was a member of the preparatory committee for the Eighth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party . In 1970, at the Eighth Congress he was elected by the congress representatives as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On September 21, 1970, he was a representative of the First Congress of the Kurdistan Islamic Scholars Union in Galala. In 1970, he was a member of the founding committee of the Erbil branch of the Kurdistan Writers Union. In 1970, he became a member of the Erbil branch of the Kurdistan Writers Union. At the end of 1970, he was appointed as the Deputy Head of the Branch Two Committee. On June 24, 1971, as a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he participated in the Haji Qadri Koyi festival in the town of Koya. On June 19, 1972, on Martyrs' Day, he represented the Branch Two Committee at the ceremony for the four martyr officers and party leaders at the Tayrawa cemetery in the city of Erbil and delivered a speech. In 1972, he was a member of the Iraqi Peace and Solidarity Committee (Hay'at al-Silm wa al-Tadamun al-Iraqiya). At the beginning of 1973, he was appointed as the Head of the Branch Committee in the tenth staff of the Branch Two Committee. On Monday, February 5, 1973, representing the Branch Two Committee, he delivered a speech at the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union in the city of Erbil. On Wednesday, March 21, 1973, as a representative of the Branch Two Committee, he delivered a speech at the Newroz celebration in Bastora near the city of Erbil.

At the end of 1973, he was appointed to the fourteenth staff of the Branch Two Committee. At the beginning of 1974, he was appointed as the Head of the Branch Committee for the first time in the fifteenth staff of the Branch Two Committee. On March 1, 1974, as a representative of the Branch Two Committee, he participated in the opening ceremony of the Third Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union in the city of Erbil. On January 1, 1975, he was appointed as the Head of the Branch One Committee (Dohuk-Mosul). In 1975, after the collapse, he became a refugee in Iran. After the collapse, he played a significant role in sending Peshmerga to Southern Kurdistan. In the middle of 1977, under the supervision of Idris Barzani, he participated in the broad meeting in Karaj for the purpose of assisting the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and supervising the refugees of Southern Kurdistan in Iran. In 1979, he was a member of the preparatory committee for the 9th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1979, he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the 9th Congress . At the beginning of 1981, he was appointed as the Head of the Branch Committee for the second time in the fifteenth staff of the Branch Two Committee. On December 12, 1983, he was the supervisor of the organizational committee of the Political Bureau headquarters.

In 1984, he became a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On July 16, 1985, he was appointed as a member of the Organization Department, supervisor of the Political Bureau administration, head of the Health Department, and head of the Martyrs Department. He was an instructor for most of the courses at the Cadre Training Institute during the phase of the Gulan Revolution. On November 30, 1985, he was the director and instructor of the course on party organization, programs, and internal bylaws of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the eighth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Institute in the village of Razhan in Eastern Kurdistan. In 1985, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. At the end of 1986, he was appointed as the Head of the Branch Committee for the third time in the twenty-first staff of the Branch Two Committee. On August 17, 1987, he participated in clearing the positions of the Iraq army on the Hiran road on the border of Erbil Governorate. On February 22, 1988, he was the commander of the Sari Nosak battle. In 1988, he was appointed as the Head of the Branch Eight Committee in Iran. In 1989, he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the 10th Congress . In 1989, he was the editor-in-chief of the Rizgari magazine, which was published by the Branch Eight Committee in Iran.

In 1991, he was the head of the Erbil axis of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. During the uprising in Southern Kurdistan in 1991, he participated in the liberation of the city of Kirkuk. On July 20, 1991, he was a member of the supervisory committee for the formation of the Kurdistan Teachers Union. From November 15 to 17, 1991, he was appointed as the head of the preparatory committee for the Seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Writers Union. On November 20, 1991, he presented the speech of President Masoud Barzani at the Second Congress of the Kurdistan Scholars Union in the city of Erbil. From December 16, 1991, to February 18, 1992, and in 1992, he was elected by the voters of Southern Kurdistan as a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly on the Kurdistan Democratic Party list in the first term. On Monday, April 27, 1992, he supervised the organization of the First Congress of the Kurdistan Engineers Union in the city of Erbil. On July 1, 1992, he published an article in Khabat newspaper, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On August 20, 1992, representing the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he participated in the opening of the First Congress of the Kurdistan Unity Party. On April 25, 1993, he was appointed Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs in the second cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government. In July 1993, he was appointed head of the high committee for the Eleventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified. In 1993, by the representatives of the Eleventh Congress he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified. On October 16, 1993, as the Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs of the Kurdistan Regional Government, he participated in the opening ceremony of the Freedom Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union in the city of Erbil. On Tuesday, July 26, 1994, in the city of Erbil, as a representative of the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, he participated in the opening of the Second Congress of the Kurdistan Toilers Party and delivered a speech. In 1994, at the beginning of the civil war, his wife, Shanaz Hamadi, was martyred in an attack by the forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan on their home. On August 11, 1994, he published an article in the weekly newspaper Gulan. On August 16, 1996, because of his service in the Aylul Revolution، Gulan Revolution and the uprising of Southern Kurdistan, he was awarded the Barzani the Immortal Medal by President Masoud Barzani on the golden jubilee of the Party.

In 1996, he was the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government in an acting capacity. In 1997, he was a teacher of the curriculum and internal regulations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the tenth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Institute in the city of Erbil. In 1998, he published articles in the magazine Dengi Afret, the organ of the Secretariat Bureau of the Kurdistan Women's Union. In 1998, he published articles in the magazine Nuseri Nwe, the organ of the Kurdistan Writers Union, Erbil branch. In 1998, he was a teacher of the history of the Party in the eleventh session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Institute in the city of Erbil. In 1999, in the Twelfth Congress he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee and later as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On November 2, 1999, he was appointed for the second time as the head of the Duhok Branch Committee. On Wednesday, July 4, 2000, accompanied by President Masoud Barzani, he participated in the graduation ceremony of the fifth session of the University of Duhok. From November 3 to 5, 2002, accompanied by President Masoud Barzani, he participated in the Hejar Mukriyani Congress, which was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Kurdistan Regional Government in the city of Erbil. On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, in the city of Duhok, as the head of the Duhok Branch Committee, he participated in the opening of the Badinan Center of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. From February 14, 2004, to April 14, 2004, he was a teacher of the history of the Party congresses in the fourteenth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Training Institute in the city of Erbil. On Wednesday, February 18, 2004, he was transferred to the Duhok Branch Committee. On Saturday, May 16, 2004, he was a representative of the Sovereignty and Democracy Congress in the city of Erbil. In 2005, he was appointed as the head of the Central Inspection and Supervision Board. In 2005, he was a teacher of the history of the Party congresses in the eleventh session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Training Institute in the city of Erbil. In 2007, he was a teacher of the history of the Party in the sixteenth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Training Institute in the city of Erbil.

On August 4, 2010, he participated in the opening of the Seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Women's Union in the city of Erbil. In 2010, in the Thirteenth Congress he ran for the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and was not elected. In 2012, he was a teacher of the history of the Party in the seventeenth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Training Institute in the city of Erbil. From January 20, 2012, to August 5, 2013, he was a teacher of the internal regulations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the eighteenth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Training Institute in the city of Erbil. In 2013, he was a teacher of the history of the Party in the nineteenth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Training Institute in the city of Erbil.

Among his works:

  1. Pandname-i Aware - 1985.
  2. Social in Kurdistan - 1998.
  3. Khabatname, a short history of the Party and the culture of Barzani the Immortal - (First edition - 2000), (Third edition - 2012)
  4. Serburde - A summary of memoirs - 2009.
  5. A Year in Sheikh Wasanan - 2016.
  6. The Story of the Immortals - 2014.
  7. Divan-i Lajani.
Source:
  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.