Editing Mohammad Najibullah (section)

==Family==
Najibullah was married on 1 September 1974 to [[Fatana Najib]], principal of the Peace School whom he met when she was an eighth-grade student and he was her science tutor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Fisher|first=Earleen|date=13 July 1991|title=Najibullah Retains Control With Power and Pragmatism|url=https://apnews.com/article/560eca18e203900b824d674183c642fa|access-date=8 August 2021|website=AP News}}</ref> The couple had three daughters, who were forced to leave Afghanistan after the [[Taliban]] seizure and the start of the [[Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)|civil war]]. The daughters grew up with their mother in [[New Delhi]], India, after moving there in 1992.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://apnews.com/article/1e4543883ad2ac099ca177537d32a5fd| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210705091613/https://apnews.com/article/1e4543883ad2ac099ca177537d32a5fd| archive-date = 5 July 2021| title = Najibullah's Family in India, Government Says| website = [[Associated Press]]}}</ref>

Najibullah had at least three brothers: General Shahpur Ahmadzai who was murdered along with Najibullah in 1996,<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 August 2021 |title=Taliban killed Afghan president after seizing power first time in 1996 |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/world/first-time-taliban-seized-afghan-power-they-hung-president-288553 |access-date=29 January 2025 |website=The Business Standard |language=en}}</ref> Sediqullah Rahi, a onetime [[Da Afghanistan Bank|Afghan National Bank]] employee<ref>https://web.stanford.edu/group/tomzgroup/pmwiki/uploads/2054-1988-03-KS-a-EYJ.pdf</ref> who had also lived in [[Hamburg]] (then [[West Germany]]) and in 1988 defected to the Taliban and fled to Pakistan aged 37 (born 1950 or 1951),<ref name=":6">{{Cite news |last=Pear |first=Robert |last2=Times |first2=Special To the New York |date=20 August 1988 |title=Afghan President's Brother Says Kabul Rulers Will Fall |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/20/world/afghan-president-s-brother-says-kabul-rulers-will-fall.html |access-date=29 January 2025 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>  and another, unnamed brother mentioned by Rahi as "working for the [[KGB]]" in 1988.<ref name=":6" /> This possibly refers to Roshan Ahmadzai, the third brother of Najibullah, who was a junior official of the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Afghanistan)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Burns |first=John F. |last2=Times |first2=Special To the New York |date=21 April 1989 |title=The Kabul Capitalist, if Not Capitalism, Thrives |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/21/world/the-kabul-capitalist-if-not-capitalism-thrives.html |access-date=5 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Rahi later moved to the United States and denounced the Taliban as a "religious fanatic group" not wanted by the people of Afghanistan and stated that they "represent the interests of Pakistan".<ref>https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/pakistan-wants-taliban-to-rule-afghanistan-says-brother-of-former-afghan-president-120030700998_1.html</ref> Their father died at a hospital in Kabul in 1983.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=16 August 1988 |title=Brother accuses Najibullah over father's killing; President Najibullah of Afghanistan |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA117373926&sid=sitemap&v=2.1&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon~f3d328d1&aty=open-web-entry |journal=The Times (London, England) |language=English}}</ref>