Abdul Rahim Hatif

Abdul Rahim Hatif (Pashto: عبدالرحیم هاتف;‎ 20 May 1926 – 19 August 2013) was a politician in Afghanistan.

[1] He served as one of the vice presidents during the last years of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

[2] Hatif was born into a Pashtun family in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

[3] Hatif was one of the Vice Presidents of Mohammed Najibullah since the 1988 elections.

Before the first fall of Kabul, he was the acting President of Afghanistan for two weeks in April 1992, after the removal of President Najibullah, and before the takeover of power by the Jamiat-e Islami.