Haji Muhammad Mohaqiq ( prs, حاجی محمد محقق; born 26 July 1955 in
Balkh) is a politician in Afghanistan, 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
People's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan ( fa, حزب وحدت اسلامی مردم افغانستان, ''Hezb-e Wahdat Islami Mardum-e Afghanistan'') is a political party in Afghanistan, formed after a split in the ''Hezbe Wahdat''. The party ...
. During the 1980s, he served with the
mujahideen rebel forces fighting against the Soviet-backed Afghan government. 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
Mohaqiq was born in 1955 and hails from
Mazar-e-Sharif
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in
Balkh Province
Balkh (Dari: , ''Balx'') is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the country. It is divided into 15 districts and has a population of about 1,509,183, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a Persian-speaking society. The c ...
. He is an ethnic
Hazara, the son of Sarwar. He holds a bachelor's degree in Islamic studies from
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. Mohaqiq speaks
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
,
Uzbek and
Arabic
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. He has been involved in
Mujahideen activities after the April 1978
Saur Revolution.
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
Northern Alliance
The Northern Alliance, officially known as the United Islamic National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ( prs, جبهه متحد اسلامی ملی برای نجات افغانستان ''Jabha-yi Muttahid-i Islāmi-yi Millī barāyi Nijāt ...
(United Front) in their resistance and struggle against the
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (
Taliban
The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, jihadist, and Pasht ...
). After the fall of the Taliban, he was appointed as the
Vice President
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and the Minister of Planning in the interim government of
Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repub ...
.
Mohaqiq ran as a candidate in the
2004 Afghan presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on October 9, 2004. Hamid Karzai won the elections with 55.4% of the vote and three times more votes than any other candidate. Twelve candidates received less than 1% of the vote. It is estimated th ...
. He came in third place with 11.7% of the votes after Hamid Karzai and
Yunus Qanuni
Younus Qanooni ( prs, یونس قانونی, born on 10 May 1957 in Panjshir Valley) is an Afghan politician who was Vice President of Afghanistan. An ethnic Tajik, Qanooni is the leader of the '' Afghanistan e Naween'' (New Afghanistan) politic ...
.
A January 2009 article by Ahmad Majidyar of the
American Enterprise Institute
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, known simply as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), is a center-right Washington, D.C.–based think tank that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare. A ...
included Mohaqiq on a list of fifteen possible candidates in the
2009 Afghan presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on 20 August 2009. The election resulted in victory for incumbent Hamid Karzai, who won 49.67% of the vote, while his main rival Abdullah Abdullah finished second with 30.59% of the vote.
The e ...
.
In the end, however, Mohaqiq opted to support President Karzai against his main challenger
Abdullah Abdullah
Abdullah Abdullah ( Dari/ ps, عبدالله عبدالله, ; born as Abdullah on 5 September 1960) is an Afghan politician who led the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) from May 2020 until August 2021, when the Afghan government w ...
in the election.
In 2010, Mohaqiq stopped supporting President Karzai because of Karzai's policy of
appeasement 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 Abdul Rashid Dostum
Abdul Rashid Dostum ( ; prs, عبدالرشید دوستم; Uzbek Latin: , Uzbek Cyrillic: , ; born 25 March 1954) is an Afghan exiled politician, former Marshal in the Afghan National Army, founder and leader of the political party Junbish- ...
created the National Front of Afghanistan
The National Front of Afghanistan (NFA; fa, جبهه ملی افغانستان, Jabhe Melli; also Afghanistan National Front, ANF), or Jabh-e Melli, was established in late 2011 by Ahmad Zia Massoud, Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq and Abdul Rashid Dost ...
(also Afghanistan National Front, ANF).
From 2014 until 2019 he served as the second deputy of the chief executive Abdullah Abdullah
Abdullah Abdullah ( Dari/ ps, عبدالله عبدالله, ; born as Abdullah on 5 September 1960) is an Afghan politician who led the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) from May 2020 until August 2021, when the Afghan government w ...
, at the end of January 2019 he was dismissed by the president Ashraf Ghani
Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan politician, academic, and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014 until August 2021, when his government was overthrown by the Taliban.
Born in ...
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 Abdullah Abdullah
Abdullah Abdullah ( Dari/ ps, عبدالله عبدالله, ; born as Abdullah on 5 September 1960) is an Afghan politician who led the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) from May 2020 until August 2021, when the Afghan government w ...
.
See also
* People's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan
People's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan ( fa, حزب وحدت اسلامی مردم افغانستان, ''Hezb-e Wahdat Islami Mardum-e Afghanistan'') is a political party in Afghanistan, formed after a split in the ''Hezbe Wahdat''. The party ...
References
External links
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Vice presidents of Afghanistan
Mujahideen members of the Soviet–Afghan War
1955 births
Living people
Hazara politicians
Hezbe Wahdat politicians
People's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan politicians
People from Mazar-i-Sharif
Islamic State of Afghanistan
20th-century Afghan politicians
21st-century Afghan politicians
Qom Seminary alumni