Peshawar Accord

The Peshawar Accord was an agreement signed on 26 April 1992 in Peshawar, Pakistan, between various Afghan mujahideen factions, brokered by Pakistan, during the fall of the communist Republic of Afghanistan. It established the Islamic State of Afghanistan with a coalition government as part of the power-sharing deal.

A notable opponent of a coalition government was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-e Islami, who had since March 1992 opposed these attempts to form a coalition government and sought to continue waging a war against the government in Kabul.

The accord proclaimed an Afghan interim to start serving on 28 April 1992. Due to rivalling forces contending for total power, that interim government was paralyzed right from the start.

Afghan mujahideen parties discussing in Peshawar, Pakistan had on 26 April 1992 agreed on proclaiming a leadership council assuring residual powers for the party leaders under an interim President Sibghatullah Mojaddedi or Mujaddidi (a religious leader) serving from 28 April to 28 June 1992. Jamiat-e Islami's leader Burhanuddin Rabbani would then succeed him as interim President until 28 October, and also in 1992 a national shura was to ratify a provisional constitution and choose an interim government for eighteen months, followed by elections. In the Peshawar Accord, Ahmad Shah Massoud was appointed as interim minister of defense for the Mujaddidi government.