Haji Muhammad Mohaqiq (

Hazaragi Hazaragi (; ) is an eastern Persian dialects, dialect and Persian varieties, variety of the Persian language that is spoken by the Hazara people. Classification Hazaragi is a member of the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Europea ...

/; born 26 July 1955 in

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) is an Afghan politician who served as a member of the Afghanistan Parliament. He is also the founder and chairman of the People's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan. During the 1980s, he served with the

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rebel forces fighting against the Soviet-backed Afghan government during the Soviet-Afghan War. After the withdrawal of the Soviet Union in 1989, Mohaqiq was appointed as the leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat for northern Afghanistan.

Early years

Muhammad Mohaqiq son of Sarwar, was born in 1955 and hails from Mazar-e-Sharif in

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. He is an ethnic Hazara. He holds a bachelor's degree in Islamic studies from

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. Mohaqiq speaks

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, Uzbek and

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. He has been involved in

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activities after the April 1978

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Political career

During the Afghan civil war in the early 1990s, he was regarded as a prominent leader fighting for his Hazara people. In the late 1990s, Mohaqiq joined the

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(United Front) in their resistance and struggle against the

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(

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). After the fall of the Taliban, he was appointed as the

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and the Minister of Planning in the interim government of

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. Mohaqiq ran as a candidate in the 2004 Afghan presidential election. He came in third place with 11.7% of the votes after Hamid Karzai and

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. A January 2009 article by Ahmad Majidyar of the

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included Mohaqiq on a list of fifteen possible candidates in the

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. In the end, however, Mohaqiq opted to support President Karzai against his main challenger

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in the election. In 2010, Mohaqiq stopped supporting President Karzai because of Karzai's policy of

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towards the Taliban insurgents."Minority leaders leaving Karzai's side over leader's overtures to insurgents"
/ref> In late 2011, Mohaqiq, Ahmad Zia Massoud and

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created the National Front of Afghanistan (also Afghanistan National Front, ANF). From 2014 until 2019 he served as the second deputy of the chief executive

, at the end of January 2019 he was dismissed by the president

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under the Article 13 Item 64 of the National constitute of Afghanistan. But later he refused his dismissal and continued attending Official meetings with Dr. Abdullah Abdullah. During the 2019 presidential election, he was the second deputy of Hanif Atmar under the ticket Truth and Justice (Afghanistan) and then left the ticket and joined

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Early years

Political career

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