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	20 May 1926 Kandahar, Afghanistan
Died	19 August 2013 (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]

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.^[3]

References

1. Clements, Frank (2003). Conflict in Afghanistan: a historical encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-85109-402-8.
2. 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
3. http://larawbar.net/37662.html