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Sibghatullah Mojaddedi

1925 - 2019

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Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (Dari: صبغت‌الله مجددی; 27 September 1926 – 11 February 2019) was an Afghan politician, who served as Acting President after the fall of Mohammad Najibullah's government in April 1992. He was the first leader to call for armed resistance against the Soviet-backed regime in 1979 and founded the Afghan National Liberation Front at the time; later becoming a respected figure among the various Afghan mujahideen. He served as the chairman of the 2003 loya jirga that approved Afghanistan's new constitution. In 2005, he was appointed chairman of the Meshrano Jirga, upper house of the National Assembly of Afghanistan, and was reappointed as a member in 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sibghatullah Mojaddedi is the 5,155th most popular politician (down from 4,513th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 37th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Afghan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi ranks 5,155 out of 19,576. Before him are Helena of Moscow, Khabul Khan, Andronikos Doukas, Manuel Roxas, Kim Kyong-hui, and Prince Valdemar of Denmark. After him are Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, Fikret Abdić, Bu Bing, Rafael Caldera, and Emperor An of Han.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi ranks 94. Before him are Hal Holbrook, Hilda Gadea, Michel de Certeau, Ernest Gellner, Ernesto Cardenal, and Nicolai Gedda. After him are Toshio Iwatani, Gabriele Ferzetti, Charles Chaplin Jr., Sufi Abu Taleb, Hildegard Knef, and Harry Harrison. Among people deceased in 2019, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi ranks 77. Before him are Yury Luzhkov, Alicia Alonso, Owen Garriott, Claudine Auger, César Pelli, and Michael Atiyah. After him are Nikolai Kardashev, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Mirjana Marković, Moshe Arens, Henri, Count of Paris, and Michel Serres.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi ranks 45 out of 177. Before him are Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890), Ibn al-Rawandi (827), Jalal-ud-din Khalji (1220), Wazir Akbar Khan (1816), Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji (1101), and Nur Jahan (1577). After him are Minhaj-i-Siraj (1193), Abu Sa'id Gardezi (1100), Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954), Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947), Tahir ibn Husayn (776), and Ali Hujwiri (1009).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi ranks 32. Before him are Shah Shujah Durrani (1785), Khalil Sultan (1384), Heracles of Macedon (-327), Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890), Jalal-ud-din Khalji (1220), and Wazir Akbar Khan (1816). After him are Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954), Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947), Tahir ibn Husayn (776), Mahmud Shah Durrani (1769), Mirwais Hotak (1673), and Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424).

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