<p><a href="/en/afganistan/kabul" class="glossify-link">KABUL</a> (Pajhwok): Former president and spiritual leader Sibghatullah Mujaddedi has passed away at the ripe age of 93, family sources say.</p>
<p>Like millions of his countrymen, Mujaddedi migrated to <a href="/en/pakistan" class="glossify-link">Pakistan</a> after the 1978 coup that led to the success of People’s Democratic Party.</p>
<p>While living in the neighbouring country, he launched the National Liberation Front party and initiated an armed struggle against the communist government in Kabul.</p>
<p>In the wake of <a href="/en/mujahideen" class="glossify-link">Mujahideen</a>’s victory against the occupation Soviet forces, the veteran jihadi leader was appointed as interim president.</p>
<p>Born in Kabul April 1926, he served as <a href="/en/afghanistan" class="glossify-link">Afghanistan</a>’s president after the ouster of the Dr. Najibullah government in 1992.</p>
<p>Mujaddedi was appointed as Senate (<a href="/en/meshrano-jirga" class="glossify-link">Meshrano Jirga</a> that approved Afghanistan’s new constitution.</p>
<p>Having studied Islamic Law and Jurisprudence at al-Azhar University in Cairo, he returned home to teach at Kabul University.</p>
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