19 Facts About Burhanuddin Rabbani

Burhanuddin Rabbani was an Afghan politician and teacher who served as the sixth president of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, and again from November to December 2001.

Burhanuddin Rabbani was chosen to be the President of Afghanistan after the end of the former communist regime in 1992.

On 20 September 2011, Burhanuddin Rabbani was assassinated by a suicide bomber entering his home in Kabul.

Burhanuddin Rabbani, son of Muhammed Yousuf, was born on 20 September 1940 in the northern province of Badakhshan.

Burhanuddin Rabbani resumed his position at the university and became closely associated with his fellow professor, Gholam Mohammad Niazi, whom he served as secretary in 1969 and 1970.

Burhanuddin Rabbani was one of the first Afghans to translate the works of Sayyid Qutb into Persian.

Burhanuddin Rabbani returned to Afghanistan in 1968, where the High Council of Jamiat-e Islami gave him the duty of organizing the university students.

In Pakistan, Burhanuddin Rabbani gathered important people and established the party.

Burhanuddin Rabbani's forces were the first Mujahideen elements to enter Kabul in 1992 when the PDPA government fell from power.

Burhanuddin Rabbani took over as president from 1992 in accordance to the Peshawar Accords.

Burhanuddin Rabbani was the third ethnic Tajik leader of modern Afghanistan after Habibullah Kalakani in 1929 and Abdul Qadir in 1978.

Burhanuddin Rabbani's rule was limited since the country was fractured by civil war between different sides.

Burhanuddin Rabbani was forced to flee following the Taliban's conquest of Kabul in 1996.

Burhanuddin Rabbani operated his government in exile, following the establishment of the Taliban rule of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

Burhanuddin Rabbani was head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, which had been formed in 2010 to initiate peace talks with the Taliban and other groups in the insurgency, until his death.

Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed in a suicide bombing at his home in Kabul on 20 September 2011, his 71st birthday.

The Pakistani government confirmed that Burhanuddin Rabbani's assassination was linked to Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

Pakistani foreign minister Hina Burhanuddin Rabbani Khar stated that Pakistan was "not responsible if Afghan refugees crossed the border and entered Kabul, stayed in a guest house and attacked Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani".

In 2011, just days before he died, Burhanuddin Rabbani was trying to persuade Islamic scholars to issue a religious edict denouncing suicide bombings.