Islamic leaders of Afghanistan and Soviet Union

Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Muhammed Sayed Afghani (L front), Chairman of the Afghan National Council of Ulema [the highest religious body in Afghanistan, whose members are influential Sunni and Shi'a scholars, imams and Islamic jurists, appointed by the President and supported by the government], and Ziyauddin Babakhan (C front), Grand Mufti, Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan [the official governing body coordinating Islamic religious institutions and activities in the five Central Asian Soviet Republics], shake hands at the city airport. Georgy Nadezhdin/TASS

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