Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi

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Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi was an Afghan politician who served as Vice President of Afghanistan under the Mujahideen from 1992 to about 1996.

1 Biography
2 References

[edit] Biography

Mohammadi received his initial Islamic education from his religious father while he received secondary and high Islamic education from various, well-known scholars in the Logar Province in Afghanistan. In 1946 when he was 26, he finished all Islamic education and began to teach. In 1947 he was a part of Qadiria Methodism due to the insistence of Ulema in the region. In the same year he also joined Naqshbandia Methodism in order to obtain self-confidence and to clear his soul. This was during a time when Afghanistan had lost many of its Islamic traditions and communism was slowly beginning to spread throughout the country. He eventually got in touch with several Ulema and created a strong union of religious scholars with which to oppose Soviet propaganda and to attempt to inform the general population on the problems of communism.

[edit] Political activities

In 1958, while some of the other scholars were already carrying out anti-communist activities and a newspaper styled "Khalq" was published, Molvi Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi began preaching against communism to people who would listen, traveling far and wide to many of the provinces in Afghanistan.

In 1969 while Babrak Karmel, Hafizullah Amin, Noor Ahad and Anahita Ratibzada had become candidates for the membership of the Afghan General Assembly, Movi Mohammad Nabi also made himself a candidate of the Logar Province with the aim of removing the communists in the General Assembly, and he was eventually selected to be a member of parliament. His political war against communism began in earnest shortly after he was selected and there was ample opportunity as a fierce struggle between the two competing ideologies of communism and Islamic government had been raging for some time.

Despite the government being quite despotic he managed to succeed in convincing the Muslim members of parliament to side with him and many communists lost their provinces as a result. However, it is rumored that he physically assaulted another member of parliament and used other bully tactics in order to accomplish his aims. He is also known for a comprehensive speech in a parliament session that was played globally on radio stations around the world; the speech itself alarmed the communist states and provoked further action.

[edit] Coup

At the end of the period of the parliament by a coup in 1973, Daud Khan came to power. The Russians and their supporters in Afghanistan knew fully that Daud Khan was unable to stop the activities of the Ulemas against the communists and that the communists would soon be fully vanished from Afghanistan. So by a coup in 1978 (sour 1357 hijree shamsi), a Russian puppet, Noor Mohammad Traki, came to power. Mohammad Nabi Mohamamdi was under the secret surveillance of the communists. Soon after, Mohammadi was compelled to leave Afghanistan and immigrated to Pakistan.

From the west part of Afghanistan, he arrived in Quetta, a city in Balochistan province in Pakistan, and there he proceeded to gather a large number of religious scholars and to make qualified activities inside Afghanistan in almost all provinces. He sent messages to all Ulemas inside Afghanistan and encouraged them for the Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan. At this time in Peshawar Hizbe islami and jamiat e islami Afghanistan intended to make a unity under a single leadership. Molvi Mohammadi was thought to be the best to lead the Jihad and Mujahideen of Afghanistan in such a dangerous and delicate mission. So he was asked for the leadership from Quetta. Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami Afghanistan was established on the same day under the leadership of Mohammadi. Ulemas, religious personalities, civil and military officers, scholars and youth joined Harakat-e-inqilab-e-islami Afghanistan. Very soon Jihad was started in all of Afghanistan, in every province and district. After nearly four months for a number of reasons, engineer Gulbadin Hikmatyar and Ustaz Rabbsni got separated from Harakat e Inqilab e Islami and founded their own parties by the name of Hizb-e-islami and jamiat-e-islami. Molvi Mohammad Nabi carried the leadership of Harakat and managed Jihad in Afghanistan better than before. Harakat e inqilabi islami was one of the seven parties that were officially recognized by the Pakistani government and was funded by the US and Arab countries through the Pakistani government.

Mohammadi was among Afghan leaders who met President Reagan at the White House during that war. Reagan called the rebel leaders "freedom fighters." Through continuous struggle the Afghan Mujahideen succeeded in their mission, and the Russian forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989 after the loss of tens of thousands of its soldiers. In 1992 the pro-Moscow government in Kabul collapsed and the Mujahideen took power.

[edit] Vice President

Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi became the Vice President of Afghanistan in the Mujahideen government. But when the Mujahideen leaders opened their weapons at each other and the civil war in Afghanistan started, he resigned from his post and forbade the troops loyal to him from taking part in the war. He remained in Pakistan and tried his best to stop the war between Gulbadin Hikmatyar, Burhanuddin Rabbani and Abdurrab Rasool Sayyaf. In 1996, the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. Most of the Taliban leaders were the students of Molvi Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi. Mohammadi, however, maintained a good relationship with the Taliban, recognizing that they brought peace in Afghanistan. He at times advised them to soften their policy regarding individual rights, female education, etc.

[edit] Death

Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi died in Pakistan on 21 April 2002, at the age of 81. He was suffering from tuberculosis for some time and breathed his last in a hospital in Rawalpindi.^[1] His body was brought to Logar, Afghanistan and was given guards of honor by the government of Afghanistan.