He was born in 1911 in Akre. He completed his primary education in Akre and secondary education in Mosul and Baghdad. In 1931 he was admitted to the Primary Teachers' College in Baghdad and graduated in 1934.
He was admitted to the Military College in Baghdad from 10-01-1934 to 15-09-1935. He graduated after a year and a month and was given the rank of second lieutenant. Mirhaj became an active member of the Kurdish national party and contacted many Kurdish intellectuals and officers who brought them to the ranks of the Hiwa Party.
In 1942, he received official permission to go to East Kurdistan secretly and to join the founders of the Kurdish Revival Association on the recommendation of the Hiwa Party. He arrived in Mahabad Before 16-09-1942 with a group of activists from East Kurdistan to found this new party.
When the Barzani Revolution (1943-1945) broke out, the Iraqi Leadership, realizing that war would not extinguish the revolution, declared a ceasefire in December 1944 and negotiated with Barzani. The revolutionary leader proposed a group of loyal Kurdish officers to become liaison officers between the Iraqi army and the Kurdish revolutionary leadership. Lieutenant Marhaj was appointed liaison officer in Akre, Lieutenant Mustafa Khoshnaw in Barzan and Izzat Abdulaziz in Ble to closely monitor the ceasefire.
When the war between Baghdad and the revolutionaries resumed in late 1944, Mirhaj joined the revolutionaries.
When the late Barzani was elected as president on 15-01-1945, Mirhaj Ahmad, Izzat Abdulaziz, Mustafa Khoshnaw, Khairullah Abdulkarim, Mohammed Qudsi, Amin Rawandzi, Sayed Aziz Shamzini and others were elected as members.
This political organization played a good role in introducing the Kurdish revolution to all parts of Iraq and abroad. In the same year, the Iraqi Leadership ordered the execution of Mirhaj and his fellow officers for joining the Barzan Revolution.
When the Leader of Baghdad attacked the Kurdish revolution with a large systematic and unsystematic force, Barzani, the leader, saw that there was a great disparity in fighting forces and weapons between the Kurdish revolutionaries and the Emir of Baghdad. On 11.10.1945, he decided to leave Iranian Kurdistan with his family and join the liberation movement of East Kurdistan. Mirhaj was one of the revolutionary officers who arrived in Mahabad and participated in the establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic, which was announced by Peshawar Qazi Mohammad on 22-01-1946 in Chawarchra Square in a big ceremony.
When Barzani wanted to establish a national party in Iraqi Kurdistan in the form of the East Kurdistan Democratic Party, he met with officers Mirhaj Ahmad, Mustafa Khoshnaw, Izzat Abdulaziz, Khairullah Abdulkarim and Mohammed Qudsi in the presence of lawyer Hamza Abdullah. They decided to establish the party and sent Hamza Abdullah back to Iraqi Kurdistan to talk with the political organizations of the revolution and liberation to dissolve themselves and join with the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On 16-08-1946, Barzani was elected president and Mirhaj was elected a member of the central committee.
When the Kurdistan Democratic Republic was overthrown on 17 December 1946, Mirhaj tied his fate to the late Barzani and went with him to the former Soviet Union, where he stayed from 18-07-1947 to 16-10-1958. On 19-01-1948, Kurds of Iranian Kurdistan, led by Barzani, held a congress in Baku, Azerbaijan, to discuss to the Kurdish liberation movement. Barzani Mustafa was elected as the chairman of the political leadership of the Kurdish movement and Mirhaj Ahmad was elected as a member of the leadership.
On 21-08-1958, Barzani, accompanied by Mirhaj and Asad Khoshaw, went to Romania, where they sent a congratulatory letter to the leadership of the July 14 revolution and were allowed to return to Iraq. On his return to the Iraqi Republic, Barzani was again accompanied by Mirhaj and Asad Khoshaw. On 6 October 1958, an amnesty law was issued for Mirhaji, and his death sentence was lifted. On 14-03-1959, he returned to the army with the rank of lieutenant.
However, after the coup d'etat of 08-02-1963, he was arrested and retired. He remained loyal to the Democratic Party and Barzani until his last breath. He died in Baghdad on 09-11-1988 and his body was brought back to Akre on 13-11-1988 and buried there.[1]