Abdul Rahman Pazhwak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Afghan diplomat
Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1919
Place of Birth: Ghazni, Afghanistan
Date of Death: 08-Jun-1995
Profession: poet, politician, diplomat, journalist
Nationality: Afghanistan
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Abdul Rahman Pazhwak
- Abdul Rahman Pazhwak (Persian: ????????? ??????; born March 7, 1919 – June 8, 1995) was an Afghan poet and diplomat.
- He was educated in Afghanistan and started his career as a journalist, but eventually joined the foreign ministry.
- During the 1950s, he became ambassador to the United Nations and served as president of the UN General Assembly from 1966 to 1967.
- During the early 1970s, he served for short periods as Afghan ambassador to West Germany and India.
- In 1976, he became ambassador to the United Kingdom.
- He served in that position until the 1978 Saur Revolution.
- He then returned to Afghanistan and was put under house arrest.
- He was allowed to leave for medical treatment in 1982 and received asylum in the United States, where he lived until 1991, before moving to Peshawar, Pakistan.
- Abdul Rahman Pazhwak died in Hayatabad in Peshawar on 8 June 1995.
- He was in Baghwani village off Surkh Road in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Poetry and Prose of ‘ Abdur Rahman Pazhwak: Ustad (an honorific title) Abdur Rahman Pazhwak (1919–1995) came from a Pashtun household that was attached to tradition but nonetheless gave Pazhwak enough freedom to allow him develop into a ‘free spirit’ already as a young adult.
- He grew up to become not only a famous poet and writer but also a successful diplomat who was respected in the highest international circles.
- Pazhwak's work and life must be viewed in close connection with his homeland because taken together they build something close to a coherent total.
- An Afghan patriot and critique, Pazhwak's substantial body of writings often allowed readers an authentic insight into important problem sets of Afghanistan in the twentieth century.
- So far only a fraction of Pazhwak's literary works has been published.
- It is for this reason that our understanding of his literary work is quite limited.
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