Martyr Jamal Abdulkarim, known as )Jamal Afnas, was born in 1953 in the Iskan neighborhood of Erbil. He studied up to the primary level and was a resident of Erbil. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, Jamal and his entire family were displaced to the country of Iran and settled in the city of Oshnavieh. Jamal Afnas was married and had seven sons and five daughters.
Jamal Afnas, in 1983, in the battalion of his father, Karim Afnas, who at that time was the commander of the Brusk Force battalion of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , became a Peshmerga. He participated in a series of partisan activities within the city of Erbil, most of which were carried out by the order of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , and he also attained the rank of commander of a partisan detachment of the Brusk Force.
Jamal Afnas participated in the 1991 popular uprising of the people of Kurdistan and the liberation of Shaqlawa, Koye, Erbil, Pirde, and Kirkuk.
On March 31, 1991, after the withdrawal of the Peshmerga forces from the city of Kirkuk, Jamal Afnas and his 16-member detachment fell into a military ambush by the Ba'ath regime behind the Baharka sub-district near the city of Erbil. After engaging with them, Jamal Afnas and all 16 of his comrades were martyred.
Source:1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.