Mawlawi Mir Hamza

Mawlawi
Mawlawi Mir Hamza
مولوی میر حمزه
Vice President of Afghanistan
In office
August 1992 – 12 January 1993
PresidentBurhanuddin Rabbani
Preceded byAbdul Rasul Sayyaf
Succeeded byMohammad Shah Fazli
Personal details
Bornc. 1943-1944
Died12 January 1993 (aged 50)
Peshawar, Pakistan
PartyJamiat-e Islami

Mawlawi Mir Hamza was an islamist politician from Afghanistan who served as Vice President of Afghanistan in Mujahideen government in 1990s.

He was born ca 1943-1944. He was a Mawlawi from a madrasa. He became a member of Jamiat-e Islami in 1969. He was Minister of Education in the Pakistani-located mujahideen government of Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai in 1988. He was chosen as Vice President of Burhanuddin Rabbani in 1992. He died in office on 12 January 1993 at the age of 50, in a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan.