What is Burhanuddin Rabbani?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Burhanuddin Rabbani<br>برهان‌الدین ربانی |office = |image = Burhanuddin Rabbani Cropped DVIDS.jpg |caption = Burhanuddin Rabbani in December 2010 |predecessor = |primeminister = |vicepresident = |successor = |party = |office1 = |predecessor1 = |successor1 = |birth_date = 20 September 1940 |birth_place = [[Badakhshan Province|Badakhshan]], [[Afghanistan]] |death_date ={{nowrap|{{Death date and age|2011|9|20|1940|9|20|df=y}}}} |death_place = [[Kabul]], [[Afghanistan]] |children = |alma_mater = [[Kabul University]]<br>[[Al-Azhar University]] |image_size = |term_start = |term_end = |term_start1 = |term_end1 = }} '''Burhanuddin Rabbani''' (1940 — 20 September 2011) was the [[President]] of [[Afghanistan]] from 1992 to 1996.<ref name=dt>{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8776911/Former-Afghanistan-president-Burhanuddin-Rabbani-killed-in-Kabul-blast.html |title=Former Afghanistan president Burhanuddin Rabbani killed in Kabul blast |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=20 September 2011 |location=[[London, UK|London]] |issn=0307-1235 |oclc=49632006 |access-date=22 October 2011}}</ref> He had been a [[Mujahideen]] leader who fought against the [[Soviet war in Afghanistan|Soviet occupation of Afghanistan]]. He was removed as President when the [[Taliban]] took over in 1996. He then became the leader of the [[Northern Alliance]] which took over in [[Kabul]] when the Taliban were removed. He became the head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council which was trying to find a way to end the fighting in Afghanistan.<ref name=dt/> He was killed in a [[suicide attack]] on his home. A man who claimed to be a Taliban leader met with Rabbini, and then exploded a bomb, which he had hidden in his [[turban]].<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8778370/Burhannuddin-Rabbani-Kabul-mourners-march-as-Afg