Mahmoud Habibi

Mahmoud Habibi ( 1924 or 1925 ; † January 20, 2011 ) was an Afghan journalist, writer and politician. He comes from an old Pashtun family from Kandahar .

Habibi held high political offices under various Afghan governments. Among other things, he was governor of the provinces of Kabul , Kunduz and Panjshir in the 1970s. He was Minister of Information under King Zahir Shah and President of the Afghan Senate under President Najibullāh . Before the Taliban conquered Kabul , he fled the city and stayed under the control of General Raschid Dostum . After the retaking of Kabul, he returned there. Until 2006 Habibi was President of the National Union of Afghan Journalists and a member of the Afghan Academy of Sciences. His wife, journalist and politician Shafiqa Habibi is president of the New Afghanistan Women Association and was General Dostum's runner-up candidate in the 2004 election.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Habibi's Dead Praying Ceremony Held At Eid Gah Mosque . Bakhtar News. January 22, 2011. Accessed on January 31, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ann Marlowe: Burqas and Ballots . Salon.com. October 8, 2004. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
3. ^ Consultative Session Of Senate Hold . Bakhtar News. January 22, 2011. Accessed on January 31, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Azizullah Habibi: Three Journalist Unions merged under the title of Afghanistan's National Union of Journalists . Internews. September 2006. Archived from the original on January 5, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
5. ^ Rita Henley Jensen: Shafiqa Habibi Named for Bravery in Journalism . WENews. May 27, 2002. Retrieved January 31, 2011.