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Mohammad Najibullah
Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as the fifth president of Afghanistan from 1987 until his resignation in April 1992, shortly after the Afghan mujahideen's takeover of Kabul. He was also the General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1986 to 1992. After a failed attempt to flee to India, Najibullah remained in…
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science · Leader of Afghanistan from 1987 to 1992 · politician · diplomat · physician · gynecologist · also Mohammad Najibullah, Dr. Najib, Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai, Mohamed Najibullah, Najibullah
Born 6 August 1947 · Died 27 September 1996 · Q207728
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2017· 1 entry
The pro-Najibullah Watan Party was created as a continuation of Najibullah's party
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2016· 2 entries
Afghanistan's Research Center blamed the ISI for his death, claiming that the plan to kill Najibullah was implemented by Pakistan
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That he believed Massoud did not want Najibullah to leave as Massoud could strategically make use of him, and that Massoud "probably harboured hopes of a co-habitation with Najib somewhere in the womb of time because tha
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1997· 1 entry
The Watan Party of Afghanistan was formed and in 2003, the National United Party of Afghanistan was registered – who seek to unite former PDPA members formerly led by Mohammad Najibullah
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1996· 5 entries
Died 1996-09-27.
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Mullah Borjan, who was the commander-in-chief of the Taliban siege force on the southeast side of Kabul, claimed to have been approached by the ISI and asked to kill Najibullah
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Najibullah had at least three brothers: General Shahpur Ahmadzai who was murdered along with Najibullah in 1996, Sediqullah Rahi, a onetime Afghan National Bank employee who had also lived in Hamburg (then West Germany) and in 1988 defected to the Northern Alliance and fled to Pakistan aged 37 (born 1950 or 1951), and another, unnamed brother mentioned by Rahi as "working for the KGB" in 1988.
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Was tortured and killed by the Taliban
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Sediqullah Rahi, a onetime Afghan National Bank employee who had also lived in Hamburg (then West Germany) and in 1988 defected to the Northern Alliance and fled to Pakistan aged 37 (born 1950 or 1951), and another, unn
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1992· 3 entries
Najibullah was formally ousted from power after six years in charge
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Pending the creation of a neutral, transitional government brokered by the U
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Najibullah appealed to the United States to help Afghanistan become a bulwark against the spread of Islamic fundamentalism
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1990· 2 entries
Najibullah abolished the Democratic Women's Organisation of Afghanistan, eradicating their Marxist rhetoric as early as 1986, and replaced it with the apolitical Afghan Women's Council, which is still in existence
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Soviet aid amounted to an estimated 3 billion United States dollars
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1989· 3 entries
The Minister of Higher Education began to work on the "de-Sovietisation" of universities, and in 1990 it was even announced by a party member that all PDPA members were Muslims and that the party had abandoned Marxism
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Najibullah told Valentin Varennikov openly that he would do everything to slow down the Soviet departure
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The Afghan army was left on its own to battle the insurgents
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1988· 1 entry
The total number of security forces available to the government stood at 300,000
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1987· 2 entries
Career landmark: Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Afghanistan (1987–1987).
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Career landmark: President of Afghanistan (1987–1992).
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1986· 2 entries
And replace him with Najibullah
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There were more than 100,000 political prisoners and there had been more than 16,500 extrajudicial executions
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1985· 1 entry
Najibullah stepped down as the state security minister to focus on PDPA politics; he had been appointed to the PDPA Secretariat
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1981· 1 entry
Najibullah was appointed to the PDPA Politburo
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1980· 1 entry
Najibullah was appointed the head of KHAD, the Afghan equivalent to the Soviet KGB, and was promoted to the rank of Major General
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1979· 1 entry
And supported a Parcham-dominated government
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1977· 1 entry
Najibullah was elected to the Central Committee
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1974· 1 entry
Najibullah was married on 1 September 1974 to Fatana Najib, principal of the Peace School whom he met when she was an eighth-grade student and he was her science tutor.
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1965· 1 entry
During his study in Kabul, Najibullah joined the Parcham (Banner) faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and was twice imprisoned for political activities
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1964· 1 entry
And completed his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 1975; however, he never practiced medicine
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-08-06.
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