Abdul Rahim Hatif

Abdul Rahim Hatif
عبدالرحیم هاتف

8th President of Afghanistan
In office 16 April – 28 April 1992
Prime Minister	Fazal Haq Khaliqyar
Preceded by	Mohammad Najibullah
Succeeded by	Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (Acting)

Personal details
Born	(1926-05-20)20 May 1926 Kandahar, Afghanistan
Died	19 August 2013(2013-08-19) (aged 87) Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands
Political party	None

Abdul Rahim Hatif (Pashto: عبدالرحیم هاتف‎; 20 May 1926 – 19 August 2013) was a politician in Afghanistan.^[1] He served as Vice President during the last years of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan.^[2]

Abdul Rahim Hatif was one of the Vice Presidents of Mohammed Najibullah since the 1988 elections. ^[3] He served as the first vice president from July 1991 to April 1992.

Before the first fall of Kabul, he was the acting President of Afghanistan for two weeks in April 1992, after the resignation of President Najibullah, before the takeover of power by the Jamiat-e Islami.

He went into exile in the Netherlands where he died on 19 August 2013.^[4]

References

↑ Clements, Frank (2003). Conflict in Afghanistan: a historical encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-85109-402-8.
↑ Organization of the Peoples Democratic Party of Afghanistan/Watan Party, Governments and Biographical Sketches 1982-1998, Volume 1, by S. Fida Yunas, pub University of Michigan, 1998.Abdul Rahim Hatif
↑ "Whitaker's almanack 1991". Retrieved 12 December 2015.
↑ http://larawbar.net/37662.html

Political offices
Preceded by Mohammad Hasan Sharq	Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan 1987 – May, 1990	Succeeded by Abdul Qayyum Nurzai
Preceded by Haji Mohammad Chamkani	Vice President of Afghanistan 1988 – 1992	Succeeded by Abdul Rasul Sayyaf
Preceded by Mohammad Najibullah	President of Afghanistan Acting 1992	Succeeded by Sibghatullah Mojaddedi Acting

Presidents of Afghanistan
Republic	Mohammed Daoud Khan
Democratic Republic	Nur Muhammad Taraki Hafizullah Amin Babrak Karmal Haji Mohammad Chamkani (acting) Mohammad Najibullah Abdul Rahim Hatif (acting)
Islamic State	Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (acting) Burhanuddin Rabbani Hamid Karzai (acting)
Islamic Emirate	Mohammed Omar (leader) Mohammad Rabbani (head) Abdul Kabir (acting head)
Transitional Islamic State	Hamid Karzai
Islamic Republic	Hamid Karzai Ashraf Ghani

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 61225140

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