Mohammad Hasan Sharq
Mohammad Hasan Sharq | |
|---|---|
محمد حسن شرق | |
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers | |
| In office 26 May 1988 – 21 February 1989 | |
| President | Mohammad Najibullah |
| Preceded by | Sultan Ali Keshtmand |
| Succeeded by | Sultan Ali Keshtmand |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 July 1925 Independent[1] |
| History of Afghanistan | |
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| Timeline | |
| 410–557 | |
| Nezak Huns | 484–711 |
Mohammad Hasan Sharq (
loya jirga
ratified a new constitution in 1987. However, the power of his office was relatively slight compared with the powers held by the presidency.
Career
Sharq served as spokesman for earlier
Minister of Finance from 1975 to about 1976.[3] He also served as spokesman for then prime minister Daud Khan and his Milli Ghurzang Party, as well as being the Afghan ambassador to Japan.[4]
In March 1986, Afghan foreign minister
Soviet troop withdrawal in 1989, consisted of 184 lower house deputies and 115 senators; 62 house and 82 senate seats were left vacant for the resistance "opposition". As a compromise candidate, Sharq was selected by President Mohammad Najibullah to be the new Chairman of the Council of Ministers, replacing Sultan Ali Keshtmand.[1] The appointment was intended dramatically to reinforce the point that the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA)
was going to take a back seat. The new constitution, however, vested key powers in the presidency and Najibullah did not give up that central role.
Sharq had served as the regime's Deputy Chairman of the
minister of defense. This post remained open for some time, but in August it was finally given to Army Chief of Staff General Shahnawaz Tanai of the Khalq
communist faction.
Thus, almost two years after he announced the national reconciliation policy in January 1987, Najibullah was unable to attract a single major figure of the resistance or prominent
Nuristan
in the northeast - by carving out territory from adjoining provinces. In each case, the purpose appears to have been to create a new entity where an ethnic minority, the Hazaras and Nuristanis respectively, would dominate. This readjustment would guarantee representation in the new parliament for these ethnic groups. At the same time, the Sharq government abolished the special ministry for nationalities that carried connotations of a Soviet-style system. In February 1989, Sharq resigned from the government of Najibullah, a move underscoring the failure by Afghans to establish a government of national reconciliation. A resident of the Anar Dara district in the western Farah province, Sharq was prime minister in the Najibullah government from 1986 to 1990.
Cabinet
References
- ^ .
PDPA Kabul Safe.
- ^ Profile of Mohammad Hasan Sharq
- ^ "Historical dictionary of Afghanistan - PDF Free Download". epdf.pub.
- ISBN 978-1-5035-7300-0.
- ISBN 978-1-85743-227-5. Retrieved 2009-03-23.)
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