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| Drafted | 24 April 1992 |
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| Signed | 26 April 1992 |
| Location | Peshawar,  Pakistan |
| Effective | 28 April 1992 |
On 24 April 1992, the Peshawar Accord was announced[1] by several but not all Afghan mujahideen parties: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-e Islami, had since March 1992 opposed these attempts at a coalition government.[2]
The accord proclaimed an Afghan interim government called the Islamic State of Afghanistan[3] to start serving on 28 April 1992.[4] Due to rivalling forces contending for total power, that interim government was paralyzed right from the start.[4]
Afghan mujahideen parties discussing in Peshawar, Pakistan had on 26 April 1992 agreed[4] 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.[4] 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[4] and choose an interim government for eighteen months, followed by elections.[1] In the Peshawar Accord, Ahmad Shah Massoud was appointed as interim minister of defense for the Mujaddidi government.[1]
- ^ a b c Sifton, John (6 July 2005). Blood-Stained Hands: Past Atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan's Legacy of Impunity (chapter II, Historical background) (Report). Human Rights Watch.
- ^ Saikal (2004), p. 215.
- ^ Sifton, John (6 July 2005). Blood-Stained Hands: Past Atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan's Legacy of Impunity (chapter I Introduction; see under § Specific Findings) (Report). Human Rights Watch.
- ^ a b c d e 'The Peshawar Accord, April 25, 1992'. Website photius.com. Text from 1997, purportedly sourced on The Library of Congress Country Studies (USA) and CIA World Factbook. Retrieved 22 December 2017.