Anti-communist guerrilla who became Afghan president dies

KABUL, Afghanistan  — Afghanistan’s first president following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country and the collapse in 1992 of Kabul’s pro-communist government, Sibghatullah Mujadidi, has died. He was 93. The white-turbaned and soft-spoken Mujadidi was a mentor to former President Hamid Karzai, who had belonged to […]