Mohammad Hasan Sharq

Mohammad Hasan Sharq
Mohammad Hasan Sharq
Prime Minister of Afghanistan
In office
26 May 1988 – 21 February 1989
President Mohammad Najibullah
Preceded by Sultan Ali Keshtmand
Succeeded by Sultan Ali Keshtmand
Personal details
Born 1925
Political party Independent[1]
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Mohammad Hasan Sharq born in 1925 was an Afghan politician during the communist regime of Afghanistan. Sharq became Prime Minister of the Soviet-backed government, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

He was selected as a compromise candidate after the Loya Jirga ratified a new constitution in 1987. However, the power of his office was relatively small compared with the ones of the Presidency.

Career

Sharq served as spokesman for earlier Prime Minister Mohammad Daoud Khan during the Kingdom of Afghanistan. When Daoud took over the Cabinet Posts of Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Foreign Minister, He appointed Sharq as his Deputy Prime Minister.[1]

In March 1986, Afghan foreign minister Abdul Wakil invited mujahideen leaders, former King Zahir Shah and ex-ministers from previous governments to join a government of national unity to rebuild the war-torn country.

The new parliament that convened on May 30, 1989, 2 weeks after the Geneva Accords became effective and the beginning of the 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 prime minister, 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. However, the new constitution vested key powers in the Presidency, and President Najibullah did not give up that central role.

Sharq had served as the regime's Deputy Prime Minister since June 1987 and before that as its Ambassador to India. [2] In any event, Sharq's association with the Parcham faction, dating back to the Daoud government, made the "non-PDPA" appellation meaningless. Likewise, on June 7, when Sharq announced his cabinet, consisting of 11 new members and 10 former ones, the non-party credentials of the "new" ministers were undermined by the fact that most had served the regime government previously in other capacities. Furthermore, the powerful ministries of interior, state security, and foreign affairs remained in PDPA hands.

The major exception was the effort to enlist a resistance commander or a respected retired general from an earlier era to become 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 faction.

Thus, almost 2 years after he announced the national reconciliation policy in January 1987, President Najibullah was unable to attract a single major figure of the resistance or prominent Afghan refugee to join the government. During 1988, two new provinces were created -Sar-e-pol in the north and 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 respectivelywould dominate.

This readjustment would guarantee representation in the new parliament for these ethnic groups. At the same time, the Sharq government has abolished the special ministry for nationalities that carries connotations of a Soviet-style system. On Febreary 1989, Sharq resigned from the government of President Najibullah, a move underscoring the failure thus far by Afghans to establish a government of national reconciliation.

A resident of the Anar Dara district in the western Farah province, Dr Hasan Sharq had been prime minister in the Dr Najeebullah government from 1986 to 1990. He also served as spokesman for then prime minister Daud Khan and his Milli Ghurzang Party.

References

  1. ^ a b c Willem Vogelsang. The Afghans. Google Books. ISBN 9780631198413. http://books.google.com/books?id=9kfJ6MlMsJQC&pg=RA1-PA319&dq=PDPA+Kabul+Safe&hl=no#PRA1-PA319,M1. Retrieved 2009-03-22. 
  2. ^ Ed 2002 43rd, Taylor & Francis Group. The Europa World Year Book 2003. Google Books. ISBN 9781857432275. http://books.google.com/books?id=XLvU9lroRuUC&pg=PA399&dq=Deputy+Prime+Minister+of+Afghanistan+in+1980&hl=no. Retrieved 2009-03-23. 
Political offices
Preceded by
Unknown
Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan
1973-?
Succeeded by
Unknown
Preceded by
Unknown
Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan
June, 1987 – 1987
Succeeded by
Abdul Rahim Hatef
Preceded by
Sultan Ali Keshtmand
Prime Minister of Afghanistan
26 May 1988 - 21 February 1989
Succeeded by
Sultan Ali Keshtmand

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