Mawlawi Mir Hamza

Mawlawi
Mawlawi Mir Hamza
مولوی میر حمزه
Vice President of Afghanistan
In office
August 1992 – 12 January 1993
PresidentBurhanuddin Rabbani
Preceded byAbdul Rasul Sayyaf
Succeeded byMohammad Shah Fazli
Personal details
Bornc. 1943-1944
Died12 January 1993 (aged 50)
Peshawar, Pakistan
PartyJamiat-e Islami

Mawlawi Mir Hamza was an islamist politician from Afghanistan who served as Vice President of Afghanistan in Mujahideen government in 1990s.[1]

He was born ca 1943-1944. He was a Mawlawi from a madrasa. He became a member of Jamiat-e Islami in 1969.[2] He was Minister of Education in the Pakistani-located mujahideen government of Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai in 1988. [3] He was chosen as Vice President of Burhanuddin Rabbani in 1992. He died in office on 12 January 1993[1] at the age of 50, in a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Far East and Australasia". Europa Publications. December 1993.
  2. ^ a b "معاون رئیس جمهور افغانستان درگذشت". www.irna.ir.
  3. ^ Adamec, Ludwig W. (1991). Historical dictionary of Afghanistan. Metuchen (N. J.) London: the Scarecrow press. ISBN 0-8108-2491-4.