:Sher Mohammad Karimi

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = General

| name = Sher Mohammad Karimi

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|11|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = Khost, Kingdom of Afghanistan

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| image = Sher Mohammad Karimi in April 2011.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| caption = Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, as Chief of Army Staff, in May 2011.

| office = Chief of Army Staff of Afghanistan

| term_start = 20 June 2010

| term_end = 22 May 2015

| predecessor = Bismillah Khan Mohammadi

| successor = Qadam Shah Shahim

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| allegiance = {{flag|Islamic Republic of Afghanistan}}

| branch = File:Afghan National Army emblem.svg Afghan National Army

| serviceyears = 1970s – present

| rank = 30px General

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| occupation = A Khalqi / Parchami group general

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General Sher Mohammad Karimi (born November 11, 1945) was the Chief of Army Staff in the Military of Afghanistan. An ethnic Pashtun,{{cite web |url=http://www.understandingwar.org/files/Backgrounder_AfghanDefense.pdf |title=Analysis of the Afghan Defesnse Appointments |first=Pamela |last=Brown |quote=Karimi, a Pashtun, has been nominated to replace Bismillah Khan. |date=June 20, 2010 |publisher=Institute for the Study of War |accessdate=March 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206041934/http://www.understandingwar.org/files/Backgrounder_AfghanDefense.pdf |archivedate=February 6, 2011 |df=mdy-all }}[http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=836&task=view&total=4&start=2&Itemid=2 Karimi, General Shir Mohammad Sher Sheer] Karimi was born in Khost Province of Afghanistan.

After the 1978 Saur Revolution in Afghanistan, Karimi was arrested and incarcerated by the Khalq faction of the PDPA communist party because of his Western education. He was employed as a director during Dr. Mohammad Najibullah Government in ministry of defence. Unlike many of his communist colleagues and the majority of the Afghan officer corps, Karimi had never received training in the Soviet Union. He was eventually forced into exile in Pakistan until the removal of the Taliban government in late 2001.

Karimi returned to his special-operations roots at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in February 2010. Previously, he served as the Chief of Operations for the Afghan Ministry of Defense."Footage shows insurgents with U.S. ammo" Accessed at: http://www.afghanemb-canada.net/en/news_bulletin/2009/Nov/10/index.php