Abdul Rahim Hatif (; 20 May 1926 – 19 August 2013) was a politician in Afghanistan. He served as one of the vice presidents during the last years of the

Democratic Republic of Afghanistan The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, later known as the Republic of Afghanistan, was the Afghan state between History of Afghanistan (1978–1992), 1978 and 1992. It was bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, by Iran to the west, by the ...

Early life

Hatif was born into a

Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ;), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are an Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically also referred to as Afghans until 1964 after the ...

family in

Kandahar Kandahar is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city, after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118 in 2015. It is the capital of Kandahar Pro ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

Career

Hatif was one of the

Vice Presidents A vice president or vice-president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice ...

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 The president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was constitutionally the head of state and head of government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Commander-in-Chief of the Afghan Armed Forces. Eligibility and selection process A ...

for two weeks in April 1992, after the removal of President Najibullah, and before the takeover of power by the Jamiat-e Islami.

Later life and death

Hatif went into exile after he was put out of power in 1992. He moved to the

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, where he died on 19 August 2013.

References

1926 births 2013 deaths 20th-century heads of state of Afghanistan Presidents of Afghanistan Vice presidents of Afghanistan People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan politicians People from Kandahar Pashtun politicians 1980s in Afghanistan 1990s in Afghanistan Afghan expatriates in the Netherlands {{Afghanistan-politician-stub