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Najibullah was born in February 1947 in the city of Kabul, in the Kingdom of Afghanistan.
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Under Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union was able to depose Karmal and replace him with Mohammad Najibullah.
He was allowed to return to Afghanistan in 1991 by the Najibullah government for unknown reasons.
When the Soviet Union abandoned the Marxist Najibullah regime and withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989 ( the regime finally fell in 1992 ), the victory was seen by many Muslims as the triumph of Islamic faith over superior military power and technology that could be duplicated elsewhere.
::" The sovereignty of Afghanistan was vested formally in " The Islamic State of Afghanistan ", an entity created in April 1992, after the fall of the Soviet-backed Najibullah government.
Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai ( 6 August 194727 September 1996 ), better known mononymously as Najibullah or Najib, was President of Afghanistan from 1987 until 1992 when the Mujahideen took over Kabul.
Following the Saur Revolution Najibullah was a low profile bureaucrat, who was sent into exile during Hafizullah Amin's rise to power as Ambassador to Iran.
In 1981, Najibullah was appointed to the PDPA Politburo.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was able to get Karmal to step down as PDPA General Secretary in 1986, and replace him with Najibullah.
For a number of months Najibullah was locked in a power struggle against Karmal, who still retained his post of Chairman of the Revolutionary Council.
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Najibullah was left without foreign aid.
In 1996 Najibullah is said to have been castrated by the Taliban, and was dragged behind a truck in the streets of Kabul, before he was publicly hanged.
As time would show, Najibullah was very efficient, and during his tenure as leader of KHAD several thousands were arrested, tortured and executed.
During his ascension to power, several Afghan politician did not want Najibullah to succeed Babrak Karmal because of the fact that Najibullah was known for exploiting his powers for his own benefit.
Another problem was that Najibullah allowed graft, theft, bribery and corruption on a scale not seen previously.
The question of who was to succeed Karmal was hotly debated, but Gorbachev supported Najibullah.
Despite this, Najibullah was not the only choice the Soviets had ; a GRU report claimed he was unfit to be leader considering the fact that he was a Pashtun nationalist, a stance which could decrease the regimes popularity even more.
On 15 May Najibullah announced that a collective leadership had been established, which was led by himself consisted of himself as head of party, Karmal as head of state and Sultan Ali Keshtmand as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.
Najibullah and born
* Najibullah Zazi ( born 1985 ), Afghan imprisoned in the USA for terrorist offenses
Najibullah and February
There hopes were dampened when the Najibullah government introduced the state of emergency on 18 February 1989, four days after the Soviet withdrawal.
President Mohammad Najibullah, whom the U. S. government predicted would not last the summer when Soviet troops pulled out of Afghanistan in February 1989, continues to rule his war-wracked nation from a precarious position.
Najibullah and 1947
* September 28 – Mohammad Najibullah, former President of Afghanistan ( b. 1947 )
* Mohammad Najibullah ( 1947 – 1996 ), President of Afghanistan
* Mohammad Najibullah ( 1947 – 1996 ), President of Afghanistan
Najibullah and city
* 1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
* September 27 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city of Kabul, after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
Najibullah and Kabul
* 1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmed Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
Upon taking Kabul the Taliban tortured ex-communist President Najibullah and his brother to death and lynched their dead corpses publicly.
Najibullah lived in the United Nations headquarters in Kabul until 1996, when the Taliban took Kabul.
* April 16 – President of Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah is ousted and detained by Muslim rebels moving towards Kabul, setting the stage for the civil war in Afghanistan ( 1992 – 1996 ).
But Najibullah was hindered by Abdul Rashid Dostum from escaping ; instead, Najibullah sought haven in the local UN headquarters in Kabul.
Many analysts believe that it was he who ordered the execution of former President Mohammed Najibullah when the Taliban took Kabul in late 1996.
Najibullah had been living inside a United Nations compound in Kabul since 1992.
As Najibullah was staying in the United Nations compound in Kabul, this was a violation of international law.
In spring of 1992 the government of Mohammad Najibullah collapsed, Kabul fell into the hands of Mujahideen forces.
With the fall of the government of President Najibullah ( himself a Kabul University alumnus ) in 1992, the university fell victim to the civil war between former mujahideen commanders.
In 1989 following a committee decision, the last Communist president of Afghanistan, Mohammad Najibullah had ordered the hoard moved from the museum to an underground vault at the Central Bank of Afghanistan in Kabul.
A mujaheddin radio station reports intra-Parcham ( a faction of the PDPA ) ( P ) clashes in Kabul between supporters of Najibullah and Keshtmand, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers.
After the fall of the Najibullah regime in 1992, Wardak was a member of the Security Committee of Kabul City, Chief of the Army Staff, Director of the Military Officers ' Society, Director of the Education Commission, member of the National Army Commission, Deputy Defence Minister, Director of Disarmament Programme and Director of Reform of the National Army.
Najibullah and Afghanistan
Back in Afghanistan he helped topple the Najibullah government, and he became an associate of Abdul Rashid Dostum, one of the men who brought down the communist government.
The rebel groups were fighting to force the Soviet Union to withdraw from Afghanistan as well as to remove the Soviet-backed government of President Mohammad Najibullah.
In 1965 Najibullah joined the Parcham faction of the Communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) and in 1977 joined the Central Committee.
In April 1978 the PDPA took power in Afghanistan, with Najibullah a member of the ruling Revolutionary Council.
While Najibullah may have been the de jure leader of Afghanistan, Soviet advisers still did most of the work after Najibullah took power.
The relevance of the Great Game in the cold war context is evident in the final years of Mohammad Najibullah, the last Soviet-backed president of Afghanistan.
* Mohammad Najibullah, the last president of the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Some include Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan, Dr. Najibullah President of Afghanistan, Mohammad Omar, Ustad Mojadidi, Professor Rabani, Gorbachov former president of Russia.
After National Reconciliation talks in 1987 the official name of the country was reverted to Republic of Afghanistan ( as was known prior to the PDPA coup of 1978 ), the republic lasted until 1992 under the leadership of Najibullah and acting president for the last twelve days, Abdul Rahim Hatef.
The Taliban's first act is to execute the last Democratic Republic of Afghanistan president Mohammad Najibullah along with his brother Shahpur Ahmadzai.
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