Editing Mohammad Najibullah (section)

====Fall from power====
By January 1992, Najibullah had become internationally isolated, with the loss of his biggest supporter he decided to consolidate his power over the non [[Pashtuns]] who were considered less loyal to the [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan|regime]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Nadiri |first=Khalid |title=Brokers, Bureaucrats, and the Quality of Government: Understanding Development and Decay in Afghanistan and Beyond |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University]] |year=2017 |pages=155–156}}</ref> This came after complaints from his fellow [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] [[Kochi people|Kochis]] of harassment from an ethnic [[Tajiks|Tajik]] general, Abdul Momin.<ref name=":5" /> Momin had developed secret ties with the [[Tajiks|Tajik]] warlord [[Ahmad Shah Massoud]] and was passing on secret information to Massoud which led to Najibullah ordering the sacking of Momin which was carried out by Juma Achak, an [[Achakzai]] [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] who served as Commander of the Northern Zone and was known to hold [[Pashtun nationalism|Pashtun chauvinist]] views.<ref name=":5" />  

General Momin was replaced with General Rasul, an ethnic [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] [[Khalq]]ist known for his brutal reputation of commander of [[Pul-e-Charkhi prison|Pul-e Charkhi Prison]].<ref name=":5" /> This move offended many of the non Pashtun militias in the North and led to the defection of most  [[Uzbeks|Uzbek]], [[Tajiks]], [[Turkmens|Turkmen]], [[Hazaras|Hazara]] and [[Ismaili Shia]]s militias including ethnic [[Uzbeks|Uzbek]], General [[Abdul Rashid Dostum]] and his 40,000 Uzbek soldiers. The defectors would form an anti-Pashtun coalition known as the Movement of the North (Harakat-e Shamal) and ally with the [[Tajiks|Tajik]] [[Jamiat-e Islami]] and [[Hazaras|Hazara]] [[Hezbe Wahdat]] in taking on the mostly [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]], [[Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan|Afghan Military]]. 

Many [[Tajiks|Tajik]] [[Parcham]]ites loyal to [[Babrak Karmal]] would defect en masse during the capture of [[Mazar-i-Sharif]] including General [[Mohammad Nabi Azimi]] with the [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] [[Khalq]]ist and [[Watan Party of Afghanistan|Pro-Najibullah]] army and paramilitaries defending the city. On 18 March 1992 Najibullah offered to resign, leading to many [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] [[Khalq]]ist and [[Watan Party of Afghanistan|Najibullah loyalists]] to ally with [[Gulbuddin Hekmatyar|Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's]] [[Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin]] in order to prevent non [[Pashtuns]] from seizing [[Kabul]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Halim Tanwir |first1=Dr. M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oyQDAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA471 |title=AFGHANISTAN: History, Diplomacy and Journalism Volume 1 |date=February 2013 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=9781479760909}}</ref> The [[Peshawar Accord]] would be signed on 26 April 1992 between various [[Mujahideen|Mujahadeen]] factions, leading to the creation of the new [[Islamic State of Afghanistan]]. However, [[Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin]] and the [[Khalq]] would continue to fight this new government in the [[Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)|Third Afghan Civil War]].<ref name=":5" />