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Ziauddin is a citizen of Afghanistan, who helped lead the ouster of the Taliban. Ziauddin is a Tajik ethnic groupmember and was rewarded with command of some of the Afghan Transitional Authority's security forces in Paktia Province in 2002. He feuded with other pro-US militia leaders and fell out with the US occupiers.
Human Rights Watch reports that Ziauddin was once allied with the Taliban. Human Rights Watch reported, in July 2003:
In March 2002 Ziauddin and Abdullah Mujahid played a role in containing a large force of Taliban who were reported to have been hiding in a large cave complex.
In September 2002 Ziauddin was authorized to attack the forces of Pacha Khan Zadran, the leader of a rival militia, who was no longer subordinating his authority to that of the central government. On September 30, 2002 Ziauddin reported his troops, supported by heavy artillery, had taken Sayed Karam where Pack Khan Zadran had his headquarters.
Ziauddin went into hiding when his lifelong friend, colleague and fellow anti-Taliban leader, Abdullah Mujahid was denounced and sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, in July 2003.
Ziauddin and Mujahid are members of Afghanistan's Tajik ethnic minority. Pacha Khan Zadran, their main rival, a fellow anti-Taliban leader who had been rewarded with a security appointment in Paktia, is a member of the majority group, the Pashtun.
Ziauddin himself was apprehended, and spent a year in the Bagram Theater detention facility.
Staff Sergeant Clint Douglas, formerly stationed in Gardez, described Ziauddin as an ally and a "thug". He claimed Ziauddin was responsible for rocket attacks on the American base in Gardez.
Douglas described Ziauddin as a Pashtun.
On January 16, 2010, the Department of Defense was forced to publish the names of the 645 captives held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility. One of the individuals on the list was named Ziauddin.
Ziauddin was a Pakistani cricketer who played for Pakistan Air Force.
He made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1975-76 season, against Sargodha. From the lower-middle order, he scored a duck in the first innings in which he batted, and 4 runs in the second.
He bowled 3 overs in the match, conceding 6 runs.
The name Ziauddin is a common transliteration of the male Muslim given name more correctly written Ḍiya ad-Dīn, . It may refer to:
- Diya al-din Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi, (1097 – 1168), Persian Sufi
- Diyā' ad-Dīn Ibn Athir (1163 - 1239), Kurdish writer and literary critic
- Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi (died 1245), Hanbali Islamic scholar
- Ziya' al-Din Nakhshabi (died 1350), Persian physician and Sufi living in India
- Ziauddin Barani (1285 - 1357), Indian historian and political philosopher
- Ziauddin Ahmed (1878 – 1947), scholar and politician in colonial India
- Nawab Sir Ziauddin Ahmed (1878 - 1947), scholar and politician in colonial India
- Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee (1888 – 1969), Prime Minister of Iran
- Ziauddin Ahmad Suleri, known as Z. A. Suleri (1913 - 1999), Pakistani journalist and writer
- Diaa al-Din Dawoud (1926-2011), Egyptian politician
- Maulana Ziauddin Islahi (1937 - 2008), Indian Islamic scholar
- Ziauddin Sardar (born 1951), Pakistani writer on Islam
- Ziyaettin Doğan or Ziya Doğan (born 1961), Iranian football manager
- Ziauddin Rizvi (died 2005), Shi'a cleric from Gilgit
- Ziaeddin Niknafs (born 1986), Iranian footballer
- Ziaeddin Tavakkoli, Iranian politician
- Ziauddin Butt, a Pakistani military officer jailed as a result of the 1999 Pakistani coup d'état
- Qari Ziauddin, Afghan militia leader
- Ziauddin (Afghan militia leader), Afghan militia leader
- Ziauddin (cricketer), Pakistani cricketer