He was barely one - year old when he lost his mother .
Zaeef was born in 1968 to a poor family in the small village of Zangiabad in Kandahar of southern Afghanistan and received a basic religious education years before the Soviet invasion .
Zaeef was barely one - year old when Zaeef lost Zaeef 's mother .
Zaeef was born in 1968 to a poor family in the small village of Zangiabad in Kandahar of southern Afghanistan and received a basic religious education years before the Soviet invasion .