Name Abdul Hatif | Political party None Preceded by Mohammad Najibullah | |
Born 20 May 1926
Kandahar, Afghanistan ( 1926-05-20 ) Role Former President of Afghanistan Died August 19, 2013, Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands Party People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan Presidential term April 16, 1992 – April 28, 1992 Previous office President of Afghanistan (1992–1992) Similar People Babrak Karmal, Hamid Karzai, Abdul Haq | ||
Prime Minister Fazal Haq Khaliqyar Succeeded by Sibghatullah Mojaddedi | ||
Abdul Rahim Hatif (Pashto: عبدالرحیم هاتف; 20 May 1926 – 19 August 2013) was a politician in Afghanistan. He served as Vice President during the last years of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Abdul Rahim Hatif was one of the Vice Presidents of Mohammed Najibullah since the 1988 elections. 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.
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