- Fazal Haq Khaliqyar
Infobox Prime Minister
name = Fazal Haq Khaliqyar
order =Prime Minister of Afghanistan
president =Mohammad Najibullah
term_start =08 May 1990
term_end =15 April 1992
predecessor =Sultan Ali Keshtmand
successor =Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani (1992)
birth_date = 1925
birth_place =
death_date =16 July 2004
death_place =Netherlands
party =People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan Fazal Haq Khaliqyar (1934 - July 2004), was an Afghan
politician , that was briefly Prime Minister of the Republic of AfghanistanHe performed duties as State Minister of Finance during
Mohammad Daud rule.He was appointed as Prime Minister during the period of President
Mohammad Najibullah government. For the first time since 1978, a free parliamentary debate was held in order to select the Prime Minister.On
May 21 ,1989 , Fazul Haq Khaliqyar, who was nonparty figure, was selected to this position in 1989. He replaced Hard-liner Keshtmand. Khaliqyar's cabinet kept PDPA stalwarts in all the key security postsBy the end of May 1990, A
loya jirga is convened inKabul , which ratifies constitutional amendments providing for multiple political parties, ending the PDPA's and the National Front's monopoly over executive power.On December 11, 1990, President Najibullah inaugurated a "National Commission for Clearing Mines and Unexploded Ordnance from the Lands of the Republic of Afghanistan" under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Khaliqyar.
A Moscow-brokered plan calls for Najibullah to step aside in favour of Prime Minister Khaliqyar, who would serve as a transitional administrative leader until a new government could be elected.
On October, Mujaddidi praises government Prime Minister Khaliqyar and says that he will consult his more radical colleagues on sharing power with him in a transitional government.
He later backs off from this pledge due to pressure from hard-liners. The mujaheddin say his association with Najibullah makes him unacceptable for any compromise.
On
July 16 , 2004, he died inNetherlands at the age of 70.
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