Abdul Samad Ghaus (1928 – 2008?) was deputy foreign minister of

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Mohammed Daoud Khan Mohammed Daoud Khan ( ps, ), also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan (18 July 1909 – 28 April 1978), was an Afghan politician and general who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973 Afghan coup ...

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. He was the most senior official of the Afghan Foreign Ministry to survive the communist coup in April 1978. After house arrest, he was imprisoned in 1980. He came to United States in 1981 and authored "The Fall of Afghanistan: an insider's account" in 1988, where he recounts detailed events leading to assassination of the president

and fall of Republic of Afghanistan. Mr. Ghaus was born in Kabul. He completed high school in Kabul, and continued his education in France and Switzerland, graduating from University of Geneva in 1956 with equivalent of MA in political science and international affairs. He served as director of United Nations and International Conferences Department of political affairs in 1973, director general of political affairs in 1976 and finally deputy foreign minister in 1977. He was intimately involved in all major aspects of Afghan foreign policy, including top-level talks with Soviet Union, United States and Pakistan. It was his friendship with Mr. Theodore L Eliot Jr, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan in 1973, that helped secure funding to author the book on Afghanistan.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghaus, Abdul Samad Afghan politicians Democratic Republic of Afghanistan 1928 births 2008 deaths Year of death uncertain