 Rahmat was absent from his post, however, during 1987-89 in order to further his education in the Soviet Union.He resigned as Deputy Governor in 1992 due to his opposition to government policies.Following the fall of the communist regime, he worked in several positions within the Nangarhar chapter of De Sule Au Islami Warorwalai Jabha ("Islamic Brotherhood and Peace Organization") that strove unsuccessfully to reconcile the disparate resistance groups in post-jihad Afghanistan.