Abdul Rahim Hatef
| Abdul Rahim Hatif | |
|---|---|
| عبدالرحیم هاتف | |
| 8th President of Afghanistan | |
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In office 16 April – 28 April 1992 |
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| Prime Minister | Fazal Haq Khaliqyar |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Najibullah |
| Succeeded by | Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
20 May 1926 Kandahar, Afghanistan |
| Died | 19 August 2013 (aged 87) Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands |
| Political party | None |
Abdul Rahim Hatif (Pashto: عبدالرحیم هاتف; 20 May 1926 – 19 August 2013) was a politician in Afghanistan. He served as Vice President during the last years of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Abdul Rahim Hatif was one of the Vice Presidents of Mohammed Najibullah since the 1988 elections. He served as the first vice president from July 1991 to April 1992.
Before the first fall of Kabul, he was the acting President of Afghanistan for two weeks in April 1992, after the resignation of President Najibullah, before the takeover of power by the Jamiat-e Islami.
He went into exile in the Netherlands where he died on 19 August 2013.
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