During the
Afghan civil war in the early 1990s, he was regarded as a prominent leader fighting for his Hazara people. In the late 1990s, Mohaqiq joined the
Northern Alliance (United Front) in their resistance and struggle against the
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (
Taliban). After the fall of the Taliban, he was appointed as the
Vice President and the Minister of Planning in the interim government of
Hamid Karzai. Mohaqiq ran as a candidate in the
2004 Afghan presidential election. He came in third place with 11.7% of the votes after Hamid Karzai and
Yunus Qanuni. A January 2009 article by Ahmad Majidyar of the
American Enterprise Institute included Mohaqiq on a list of fifteen possible candidates in the
2009 Afghan presidential election. In late 2011, Mohaqiq,
Ahmad Zia Massoud and
Abdul Rashid Dostum created the
National Front of Afghanistan (also Afghanistan National Front, ANF). From 2014 until 2019 he served as the second deputy of the chief executive
Abdullah Abdullah, at the end of January 2019 he was dismissed by the president
Ashraf Ghani under the Article 13 Item 64 of the National constitute of Afghanistan. But later he refused his dismissal and continued attending Official meetings with Dr. Abdullah Abdullah. During the 2019 presidential election, he was the second deputy of
Hanif Atmar under the ticket
Truth and Justice (Afghanistan) and then left the ticket and joined
Abdullah Abdullah. == See also ==