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Sibghatullah Mojaddedi
(
Pashto
:
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, 21 April 1925
[1]
? 11 February 2019)
[2]
was an
Afghan
politician. He served as Interim
President
after the fall of
Mohammad Najibullah
's government in April 1992. He was also the founder of the Afghan National Liberation Front.
He served as the chairman of the
2003 loya jirga
that approved Afghanistan's new constitution. In 2005 he was appointed chairman of the
Meshrano Jirga
, upper house of the
National Assembly of Afghanistan
. He was reappointed as a member in 2011. He also served on the
Afghan High Peace Council
.
It was reported on 12 February 2019 that Mojaddedi had died the day before at a
Kabul
hospital from a long-illness.
[2]
He was 93.
[3]
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