Hajji Mohammed Mohaqiq

Hajji Mohammed Mohaqiq ( Persian حاجی محمد محقیق, other spellings: Mohaqqiq , Muhaqeq , Mohakik ) (* 1955 ) is an Afghan politician and currently a member of the Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan two-chamber parliament. Mohaqiq is assigned to the Hazara ethnic group and comes from the city of Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan .

Afghan Civil War

Mohaqiq was an important member of the Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan founded by Abdul Ali Mazari in 1988 ( Persian حزب وحدت اسلامی افقانستان, Hezb-e Wahdat-e Eslami-ye Afghanistan ), the main Shiite Hazara party in Afghanistan. He took the position of the leader of the Executive Council for the North in the party . Despite the tensions between Mohaqiq and his adversaries in the north, the Uzbek Abdul Raschid Dostum and the Tajik Atta Mohammad Noor , things remained relatively calm in this area of Afghanistan during the civil war.

This only changed when the Taliban were advancing in the north and marched in Mazar-e-Sharif on 24 May 1997th Mohaqiq's forces were involved in the Hazara uprising against the Taliban in Mazar-e Sharif on May 28, 1997, which led to the provisional retaking of the city by Uzbek and Hazara forces. In the same year, the Hezb-e Wahdat joined the National Islamic United Front for the Rescue of Afghanistan , which was set up as an alliance of convenience under the pressure of the Taliban's advance. However, since this merger of the former rivals could not prevent the Taliban from conquering the north, Mohaqiq lost his previous position of power for the time being.

Time after September 11, 2001

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Mohaqiq's Hazara troops succeeded in recapturing Mazar-e Sharif from the Taliban on November 9, with the support of the US-led international coalition together with the forces of Raschid Dostum and Atta Mohammad Noor . In connection with the capture of the city and the surrounding regions in that year as well as in 1997 during the first reconquest, the troops are charged with serious attacks on ethnic Pashtuns and ethnic expulsions. After the victory over the Taliban, the rivalries between the three leaders came to light again and there was repeated fighting.

In the interim administration set up on December 22, 2001 by the Petersberg Agreement , Mohaqiq became one of the four vice-chairs and Minister of Planning. He also retained the post of planning minister in the interim government appointed on June 19, 2002 by an extraordinary national Loya Jirga .

On March 7, 2004, he lost his post as planning minister and was no longer given any office in the new cabinet of the now democratically elected President Hamid Karzai , which was sworn in on December 23, 2004 . Ramazan Baschardust took over the office of planning minister. In Mazar-e Sharif there were demonstrations by ethnic Hazaras demanding the reinstatement of Mohaqiqs. Mohaqiq himself claimed that he was fired in response to his announcement that he would run in the presidential election against the then incumbent interim president Karzai. However, this was denied by the Karzai government and Mohaqiq's departure was attributed to differences with other cabinet members.

2004 presidential election

Mohaqiq officially ran as an independent candidate, as party nominations were not allowed by electoral law. Nevertheless, he was considered the only Hazara candidate for the office of president as a candidate for the most important Hazara party, Hezb-e Wahdat. With 11.7% of the vote, he came third after Hamid Karzai (55.4%) and the Tajik Junus Ghanuni (16.3%), but ahead of his Uzbek rival in the north, Raschid Dostum, with 10% of the votes. As expected, he was particularly successful in the Hazara settlement areas, with 84% and 76% of the votes in the Hazara core provinces of Daikondi and Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, respectively. He also did relatively well among the Afghans in exile living in Shiite Iran, with 44% of the votes only just behind Karzai, who received 44.4% of the votes there.

General election 2005

Mohaqiq ran for the parliamentary elections on September 18, 2005 as a candidate in the province of Kabul and achieved first place there with 13.84% of the vote. Since then he has been one of the critics of the Karzai government in parliament.

When Ashraf Ramazan, another Hazara candidate for the parliamentary elections, was assassinated on September 27, 2005, Hazara demonstrations took place in Mazar-e Sharif. Mohaqiq took the lead and threatened a hunger strike if Ramazan's murderers were not brought to justice.

National Alliance

At the end of 2011, Mohaqiq, together with Ahmad Zia Massoud and Raschid Dostum, founded the National Alliance , which is fighting against a return of the Taliban to power. The alliance plans to run its own candidate in the 2014 presidential election in Afghanistan .