Shekhala Ibrahim Shekhala, was born in 1949 in the village of Jastan in the Dibaga sub-district of Makhmur district, Erbil Governorate. He completed his primary and secondary education in Dibaga, in 1960 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union, on April 4, 1964 he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and in the battalion of Faris Bawa became a Peshmerga, in 1961 he received the rank of political cadre in Branch Two, he participated in the battles of Koya, Mount Bawaji, Smaquli, Balisan Valley, Marga and Pishdar against the Iraqi Army, in Year 1965 in the battle of Asos his right leg was wounded, in 1967 he received the rank of Head of Branch in the First Battalion of the Erbil Plain Force.
After the March 11, 1970 agreement, he was employed in the Erbil Education Directorate and was an accounting clerk. In 1972 he finished the Islamic Institute in Erbil. In 1974, after the Iraqi government did not comply with the March 11 agreement and the resumption of war, Shekhala Ibrahim rejoined the Peshmerga forces of the Erbil Plain Force, which had its headquarters in the village of Ziwa in the Khoshnawati region.
In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he became a refugee in the Country of Iran and resided in the city of Oshnavieh, later he was transferred to the city of Dezful, on October 5, 1975 he returned to Iraq and was exiled to the city of Shatra in Basra Governorate. In 1976 he was exiled to the city of Nasiriyah, in 1979 he returned to the city of Erbil and after one year he left Erbil and went to Eastern Kurdistan.
In 1980 he rejoined the Peshmerga forces of the Gulan Revolution, in 1981 in the internal conferences of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he was elected as a member of Branch Two, in 1982 he received the rank of branch administrator, on April 14, 1987 during the chemical bombardment of Sheikh Wasanan he was severely wounded, the same year in the Khoshnawati region he carried out several partisan activities against the Iraqi Army and remained there until 1988, later he went to the Erbil Plain and Koya to carry out activities.
In 1988 he returned to Eastern Kurdistan and was made the person responsible for the Ziwa camp, after the Tenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he was transferred to Branch Two and returned with a detachment of Peshmerga to the areas of Erbil and Khoshnawati. In 1991 he returned to Southern Kurdistan with President Masoud Barzani, he participated in the liberation of the cities of Soran, Khalifan and Erbil. On March 20, 1991, with the Peshmerga of Branch Two, he participated in the liberation of the city of Kirkuk.
On March 19, 1992, after the election of the Kurdistan Parliament and the formation of the first cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Shekhala Ibrahim was made Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation. In 1999 he received the rank of Deputy Head of Branch Two of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 2005 he was elected as a member of the second term of the Kurdistan Parliament, in 2009 he was retired.
On December 15, 2010, at the 13th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, by President Masoud Barzani he was awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal.
Source:1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.