He participated in the guerrilla assaults on the towns of Mitú and Miraflores.
The Shafir shooting attack was a guerrilla assault carried out by Palestinian militants on April 11, 1956.
The guerrilla assaults have not only cut the country's earnings but increased its expenses.
If Jalalabad were to fall to the guerrillas, the way would be opened for an all-out guerrilla assault on Kabul.
It was previously considered safe from guerrilla assaults.
Earlier this week, Afghan Government warplanes stopped a 10,000-strong guerrilla assault on Gardez, 90 miles south of Jalalabad.
The use of the weapons reflects the severity of the week-old guerrilla assault on Jalalabad, Afghanistan's third-largest city.
With the Soviets all but gone and no peace agreement in sight, many people are bracing for a guerrilla assault on the capital.
They had spent the morning repelling guerrilla assaults after seizing the mosque at dawn.
So far, the violence, carried out in village burnings and urban guerrilla assaults, has taken at least 150,000 lives.