Career
He served as Vice President during the last years of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Before the first fall of Kabul, he was the acting President of Afghanistan for two weeks in April 1992, after the resignation of President Najibullah, before the takeover of power by the Jamiat-e Islami.
He went into exile in the Netherlands where he died on 19 August 2013.