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Azad Beg was the founder of the Turkic nationalist Ittehadiya Islami-ye Wilayat-i Shamal movement in Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan War. Beg was the great-grandson of Nasseruddin, the last amir of Kokand.
Azad Beg was born on July 4, 1952 in Campbellpur, Pakistan. His father, AbdulWaris Karimi, was an Uzbek doctor serving in the Pakistan Army. Azad Beg's mother was the daughter of Mehmood Beg, the grandson of Syed Mohammad Khudayar, the Khan of Kokand. Azad Beg's father was born in 1914 in Tashkent, present day Uzbekistan. The younger of two sons born to a local leather merchant, Abdul Waris suffered at the hands of the Soviet government. The government, in its communist class warfare mode, took away all the possessions of the Abdul Karim family forcing them to starvation. To provide food, Abdul Waris, his brother and father had to work as day laborers digging canals in Tashkent city. The Soviet government had established free education for the working class children and because of this system Abdul Waris was able to earn his medical degree from Tashkent University.
When World War II started all Soviet citizens of military age were drafted into the growing Red Army. Whole towns and neighborhoods were emptied of the young boys of fighting age. Abdul Waris and his brother were also drafted. Abdul Waris saw action as a medical officer in the Finnish war. Later on he was moved to the western front facing the German onslaught. Ill equipped and untrained, the soviet soldiers soon fell and many including the Abdul Karim brothers were taken as POWs by the Wehrmacht. Abdul Waris was transferred to POW camps in Poland. He survived the German death camps by pure luck and being useful to his captors because he was a medical doctor. His brother was not that lucky. He either perished in fighting or in captivity. There is no known trace of him.
Around 1943 (edit), Abdul Waris, along with other Turkish speaking soviet officers including Bymirza Hayit, formed the Turkestan Freedom Movement.
this group consisted of Turkic speaking prisoners in German POW camps who were released, formed in fighting groups and then thrown against the approaching Red Army by the Germans. There are detailed reports of these soldiers, in German Wehrmacht uniform, fighting to the death against the Red Army and against the Allies in different theaters of the war. As the war ended, Abdul Waris found himself at the mercy of Allied army along with the officers of the Turkestan movement. Already sentenced to death in absentia by the Soviet Union and hunted down by NKVD and GRU these soldiers were protected by the American Administration of occupied Germany. Abdul Waris was given a refugee status and protection for his anti communist fight and saving hundreds of soldiers from imminent death in the concentration camps.
He stayed in West Germany until 1949 when he was decided to join the new Pakistan Army Medical Corps to start a new life in the new country.