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Afghan Social Democrate party popularly called Afghan Mellat (Afghan Nation). Educated in Kabul and Germany, where he obtained an engineering degree, he was president of the Afghan Electric Company (1939-66), and mayor of Kabul (1948-54). He built the Jada-yi Maiwand (Maiwand Street), the first major avenue through the old town of Kabul, relocating displaced residents, and changed the traffic from the British Indian system to right-hand driving, which was subsequently adopted throughout Afghanistan. He demanded the restoration of "Greater Afghanistan" with the inclusion of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province and Balouchistan. Publisher of Aghan Millat, 1966-67, a weekly newspaper, which subsequently became the name also of the party. He was pro-German and accused of giving preference to German technology and experts in the allocation of various developmental contracts. In 1968 he was elected to parliament but resigned his seat in 1970. In 1978 he was arrested by the Khalqi regime and his party was accused of attempting a coup, but was freed in 1980 in the general amnesty of Babrak Karmal. He died in 1984 in Kabul. He was a Pashtun and an ardent supporter of the Pashtunistan.
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