of Counter Narcotics until March 2010. In 2006 he attended the Top Leadership Programme (TLP1) in Berin Germany organised by the commission for reform of public affairs and UNDP to strengthen good governance and leadership in Afghanistan. As minister, known to his colleagues, Khodaidad showed commitment and dedication to his job. During his term, twenty, out of thirty-four, provinces of Afghanistan were announced as poppy-free by the U.N. Of the 203,000 hectares used for poppy cultivation, Khodaidad managed to reduce this to 123,000 hectares. As a part of his campaign to rid Afghanistan of drugs, Khodaidad travelled to all thirty-four Afghan provinces with his United Kingdom, United States and other international partners to volatile and dangerous provinces. In President Karzai's cabinet, Khodaidad was amongst the few ministers who had maintained their non alignment with any faction or party in Afghanistan. According to his colleagues and the international community, Khodaidad was renowned for being against corruption and has been described as a clean and transparent minister in the Karzai cabinet. As Phil Zabriskie, states in his article "Afghanistan's drug czar – world's toughest job", published in Fortune, Khodaidad "has earned one of the cleanest reputations in the Afghan civil service." Further, Tom Schweich, a former senior State Department counternarcotics official also speaks highly of Khodaidad as an individual without "any influence" from any tribes backing him, gunmen or mujahadeen lending him credibility. In addition, Khodaidad has no sway with any ethnic groups because he values his independence and non-alignment. The former US Ambassador Karl Eikenberry and Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr., in a discussion on the "New Cabinet" in 2009 stated that Khodaidad "holds graduate degrees from the Indian National Defense Academy. … and he has been a very good partner for U.S. counternarcotics efforts." In 2013 General Khodaidad was selected as the first vice president candidate to Hedayat Amin Arsala for the upcoming presidential elections of Afghanistan in 2014. General Khodaidad was also a member of the consultative Loya Jirga (Grand Meeting) of Afghanistan to agree the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) between Afghanistan and the United States in November 2013. Between 2017 and 2019 Khodaidad was appointed as the Inspector General and member of High Oversight Board (HOB) of the Afghan armed forces in the Office of the National Security Council, Afghanistan in the presidential palace. Accolades Khodaidad is honoured and perceived by the Afghan people, former colleagues including army officers