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Educator, historian and representative of Kandahar in parliament. Self educated, he started as a teacher and became editor of Pashto daily Tulu-yi Afghan (Afghan Surise) in 1931. He was a Pashtoun Nationalist and a member of Wish Zalmyan (Awakened Youth). In 1940, he was appointed the president of Pashto Academy and in 1941 dean of faculty of literature of Kabul University. He was forced to live in exile because of his opposition to the government of Shah Mahmoud and published Azad Afghanisan (Free Afghanistan). In 1961 he was permitted to return to Afghanistan and became professor in the faculty of letters of Kabul University. He was appointed president of the Afghan Historical Society in 1966, and published a number of books on Afghan history as well as a purported Pashto record of early poetry, the Pata Khanzana (Hidden Treasure). Shortly before he died in Kabul in 198, he published a book on the constituinalist movement in Afghanistan (Junbesh-I masrutiyat dar Afghanistan) which described the movement as nationalist, rather than Socialist.
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