The 4th and 15th armoured brigades were sent from Pul-e-Charki, but due to the distance they had to travel, Hafizullah Amin ordered Major-General Sayyed Mukharam, commander of the Kandahar garrison to send an armoured force that could reach Herat faster.
Idi Amin | Amin Maalouf | Hafizullah Amin | Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari | Wali Khan Amin Shah | Ibrahim Amin | Haj Amin al-Husseini | Esperidião Amin | Yaphett El-Amin | Syed Murtaza Amin Shah | Samir Amin | Shimit Amin | Rasul Amin | Muhammad Amin Bughra | Muhammad al-Amin al-Kanemi | Muhamed Amin Zaki | Mohd Noor Amin | Mohammad Ruhul Amin | Mirza Ali Asghar Khan Amin al-Sultan | Lady Amin | Khalid El-Amin | Idi Amin's Uganda | Amin Zendegani | Amin Tarzi | Amin Joseph | Amin Asikainen | Amin al-Hafiz | Amin al-Hafez | Amín | Ahmad ibn al-Amin al-Shinqiti |
In more recent times, three of the pro-communist presidents were Ghilzais, Nur Muhammad Taraki (of the Taraki tribe), Hafizullah Amin (of the Kharoti tribe), and Mohammed Najibullah (of the Ahmadzai sub tribe of suleimankhail).
In 1965, he was elected to the Afghan parliament from his home district of Barak-i-Barak in Logar province representing the traditional religious scholars.As one of only a handful of religious scholars in the parliament, he took it upon himself to be a first line of defense against the Marxist deputies such as Babrak Karmal, Hafizullah Amin, Noor Ahad and Anahita Ratebzad and strongly opposed the Marxist movement in Afghanistan.
That evening, the Soviet military launched Operation Storm-333, in which some 700 troops, including 54 KGB spetsnaz special forces troops from the Alpha Group and Zenith Group, stormed the Palace and killed President Hafizullah Amin, who resided there.