Abdul Rahman Pazhwak

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Abdul Rahman Pazhwak , also Pajhwak ( Persian عبدالرحمان پژواک) (Born March 7, 1919 in Ghazni ; † June 8, 1995 in Peshawar , Pakistan ) was an Afghan diplomat who served as President of the UN General Assembly .

journalist

After graduating from high school, he worked as a journalist and in the press department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Later he was the publisher and editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper "Islah". He was then director of the Bakhter Agance news agency (now Agance Etlaati Bakhter), which was the first news agency in Afghanistan. He then became Director General for Press and Information in Afghanistan and President of the Institute for the Promotion of the Pashtu Language ("Pashtu Tolana").

Abdul Rahman Pazhwak summarized the socio-cultural terms of Pashto (not as a means of communication, but as the purpose of life).

diplomat

In 1946 he entered the diplomatic service and was initially embassy attaché for culture and press at the embassies in Great Britain and the USA . In 1951 he became a member of the Foreign Ministry, where he was, among other things, responsible for the UN .

After working as permanent representative at the UN, he was ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and India . In 1976 he became ambassador to Great Britain. However, he lost this office after the communist coup in 1978. After his return to Afghanistan he was placed under house arrest and was only allowed to leave Afghanistan in 1982 for health reasons. He then lived in exile in the USA and, from 1991, in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Promotion to President of the UN General Assembly

In 1958 he became the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations. There he was chairman of the UN Human Rights Commission in 1963 . In 1963 he was also commissioned by the UN to improve relations between Vietnam and the Buddhist faith community . He also represented his home country at conferences of the Movement of Non-Aligned States .

On September 20, 1966, he was elected President of the UN General Assembly to succeed Amintore Fanfani . After the presidency over the 5th special session in 1967 he was replaced by Corneliu Mănescu on September 19, 1967 as President of the UN General Assembly.

writer

Pazhwak occupied himself with literature, philosophy and social sciences throughout his life. His works as a writer included translations by the Nobel Prize laureate Rabindranath Tagore .

With the establishment ( Persian آژانس خبرى پژواک Agance e Khabari Pazhwak ) or ( Pashto پژواک خبرى آژانس Pazhwak khabari Agance ) Pazhwak news agency honored Afghanistan for his life's work.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The date and place of birth is also given as 1917 in the Sorchrud district in the Nangarhar province .
  2. ↑ Bakhter means Occident and is the Arabicized form of Baktra or Bactria
  3. ↑ Pashto is not just a language, but the entire Pashtun way of life and tribal law. In 1939 the results of his research appeared in Saalnama e Kabul No. 8 ( 8th Kabul Yearbook ), under the term Afghaniyat . Pashtunwali is a terminus technicus used by intellectuals and abroad.
  4. ↑ Even within their website there are various translations and terms such as http://www.pajhwak.com , English: Pajhwok Afghan Agence.

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personal data
SURNAME Pazhwak, Abdul Rahman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pajhwak, Abdul Rahman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghazni
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1995
Place of death Peshawar , Pakistan