Sher Zaman Taizi (3 November 1931 – 22 December 2009) was

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writer, poet, intellectual and journalist from

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Career

Born in

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Nowshera District Nowshera District ( ps, نوښار ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Peshawar Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The capital and district headquarter is Nowshera city. Overview and history Nowshera was a tehsil (sub di ...

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(then NWFP), Present-day

. Taizi served in the Army Service Corps as a clerk (1949–1954), Intelligence Bureau of the Government of Pakistan,

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, (1954–1977), as Liaison Officer

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Commissionerate, Peshawar (1979–1980),

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(Protection Officer and Programme Officer; 1980–1991), daily the Frontier Post, Peshawar (Assistant Editor; 1991–1995) and

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Education Project at Peshawar (Editor of the New Home New Life – a trilingual magazine; 1996–1997). Later he was attached to the Tribal Women Welfare Association as vice-chairperson and editor-in-chief of its bilingual quarter Neway Zhwand (New Life). During his service in the Intelligence Bureau, Taizi spent more than 15 years in tribal areas, having stayed in every tribal agency, and more than seven years in the Pakistan Embassy in

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Education

Having done his

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, Taizi did his

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from the Area Study Centre, Peshawar University. His thesis in English is related to "the

Saur Revolution The Saur Revolution or Sowr Revolution ( ps, د ثور انقلاب; prs, إنقلاب ثور), also known as the April Revolution or the April Coup, was staged on 27–28 April 1978 (, ) by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) ...

(1978) – the

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that took place in April 1978".

Literary figure

In Pashto literary circles Taizi was still known as Ghamzhan, although he has long given up that

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and instead uses his family name Taizi.

Published books in Pashto

*Warsho (poetry), *Soma (poetry, *Gulpana (drama), *Shpelae (short stories), *Gul Khan (novel), *Amanat (novel), *Rahman Koroona (novel), *Ghunday (novel), *Wade o’ n’ sho (novel), *Nara Zheba (research article on Pashto language), *Novel: Hunan au Safar (research article on characteristics of novel) *Da Pukhto Leekdod: Yao Sarsari Jaj (research article on Pashto script) *Suqut-e-Afghanistan (Translated into Pashto from English – The Fall of Afghanistan by Samad Ghaus).

Published books in English

*Polar Bear (Tr. From Pashto poetry of Mohammad Hasham Zamani), *The Pukhtun’ Unity (From Pashto – Qami Wahdat by Mohammad Afzal Khan, a former federal minister), *Abad Khan: The Lost Ring of the Chain (Tr. From Urdu by Anwar Khan Deewana), *Rahman Baba: the Outstanding Painter of Thoughts, *The Saur Revolution (Research article on the Communist Revolution that took place in Afghanistan in 1978), *Afghanistan: From Najib to Mojaddedi (booklet in two volumes), *Afghanistan: A Clash of Interests, *Afghanistan: Two Governments and Three Capitals, *Afghanistan: Drug Menace in Central Asia, *Afghanistan: Landmine Menace in Afghanistan *Bare-foot in Coarse Clothes (translated from Dari; by Dr. Hassan Sharq, a former Prime Minister of Afghanistan) *Bacha Khan in Afghanistan, *Terrorist Attacks in USA and US Attack on Afghanistan. *Secret Plans and Open Faces (Tr. from Pashto; Pate Tautiye, Barbande Tsere by Hikmatyar) *Dispute between Iran and Afghanistan on the issue of Hirmand River (Tr. from Persian: by Gholam-Reza Fakhari, Tehran; 1993) *Nights in Kabul (Tr. from Dari by General Umarzai) *Causes of the Fall of the Islamic State of Afghanistan under Ustad Rabbani in Kabul (Tr. from Dari: by Syed ‘Allam-ud-Din Atseer) *General Elections in Afghanistan 2005.

Published books in Pashto and English

*#The Mother Tongue (Moranae Zheba).

References

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