Mohammad Musa Shafiq

Muḥammad Mūsá Shafīq (Pashto: محمد موسی شفيق;‎ 1932–1979) was Prime Minister of Afghanistan for eight months.

He survived throughout the regime of Mohammed Daoud Khan, but was arrested after the 1978 communist coup d'état and executed along with many other anti-communist politicians in 1979.

Son of prominent Afghan politician, civil servant and religious leader Mawlawi Mohammad Ibraheem Kamavi.

His career was cut short by the Da'ud coup of 1973, and he was taken from arrest to execution by the Nur Muhammad Taraki regime.As Prime Minister, Shafiq supported reforms of the largely conservative society of Afghanistan.

He also sought closer ties with the United States and promised a crack-down on opium growing and smuggling.