Muhammad Nabi Muhammadi (1920-21 April 2002) was Vice-President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 under the Mujahideen.
Biography[]
Muhammadi was born in Shah Mazar in Logar Province, Afghanistan, in 1920 to the Ahmadzai Pashtun tribe. He became a religious scholar and a member of parliament, and resisted the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), a communist party that sought to establish their control over the Kingdom of Afghanistan. He was the first line of defense against Nur Muhammad Taraki and Hafizullah Amin, who wanted to create a dictatorship.
In 1978, after the PDPA seized power and created the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Muhammadi led the Mujahideen in Pakistan afainst the new government. From 1980 to 11 April 1991 he led the Siege of Khost during the Soviet-Afghan War, besieging Soviet enlisted men and DRA conscripts. With the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988-1989, the Afghan government troops were deserted and on 11 April 1991 the city fell to Muhammadi, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and Jalaluddin Haqqani's Mujahideen army.
In 1992, after the Islamic State of Afghanistan took power from the communist government, he became the Vice President of the Mujahideen. He served in this post until 1996, when the Taliban took over Kabul and founded the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Muhammadi died of tuberculosis in 2002.