ENG - Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (Pashto صبغت الله مجددي)(born 1926), served as the first President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan after the fall of the communist regime in 1992. He is also the leader of the Afghan National Liberation Front.
Professor Mojaddedi transferred power to President Burhanuddin Rabbani after serving a two-month term, based on a prior agreement that was reached by the Mujahideen forces in Pakistan. He couldn't establish any type of reconciliation among the Mujahideen factions.
In December 2003, he served as the chairman of the Loya Jirga that approved Afghanistan's new constitution.
Recently he was elected as the leader of the legislature's 102-seat upper house, the Meshrano Jirga, for a 5 year term, and is also chairman of "National ...
KABUL: Afghanistan’s reconciliation commission said on Monday that wanted former Taliban leader Mulla Mohammed Omar and warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar could be offered an amnesty and allowed to enter politics.Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, the head of the Independent National Commission for Peace in Afghanistan, said the amnesty would also cover Afghan detainees held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The offer would seem to contradict earlier statements by President Hamid Karzai who last year offered an olive branch to rank-and-file Taliban fighters but ruled out a rapprochement ...
martina - in poll Sibghatullah Mojaddedi The upper house of the Afghan parliament has supported a death sentence issued against a journalist for blasphemy in northern Afghanistan. Parwiz Kambaksh, 23, was convicted last week of downloading and distributing an article insulting Islam. He has denied the charge.The UN has criticised the sentence and said the journalist did not have legal representation during the case.The Afghan government has said that the sentence was not final. A government spokesman said recently that the case would be handled "very carefully".Now the Afghan Senate has issued a statement on the case - it was not ...
alexasa - in poll Sibghatullah Mojaddedi