Word: mojaddedi
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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...Friday the rebel leaders, during their first Cabinet meeting inside Afghanistan, once again predicted victory. Said Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, President of the interim government: "We hope to hold further Cabinet meetings nearer and nearer Kabul...
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, leader of the fundamentalist Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan, was named the potential Prime Minister, while Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, leader of the moderate Afghan National Liberation Front, would be President. Five other rebel leaders also received Cabinet assignments...
...agreement reached by the guerrillas impressed U.S. and Pakistani observers, but the unity may prove fleeting. A rival group of mujahedin based in Iran opposed the council's choices. Mojaddedi nonetheless called on other countries to recognize the interim rebel government, which he predicted would be functioning inside Afghanistan within a month, "God willing...
...Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, 63, presides over the Afghan National Liberation Front, the smallest and weakest militarily of the resistance parties. Mojaddedi, who speaks five languages, is currently chairman of the rebel alliance, but he wields limited power...
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