Abdul Rahim Hatif

عبد الرحيم هاتف

20 May 1926 CE · 9 Dhu al-Qa'da 1344 AH† – 19 August 2013 CE · 12 Shawwal 1434 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Afghan politician (1926–2013), born at Kandahar into a Pashtun family. He was one of the vice presidents of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in its last years — a vice president from the 1988 elections and first vice president from July 1991 to April 1992 — and then acting President for two weeks, from 16 to 28 April 1992, after President Najibullah's removal and before the mujahideen takeover of Kabul, appealing for a peaceful transfer of power. Put out of power in 1992, he went into exile in the Netherlands, where he died at Alphen aan den Rijn in 2013.