Khalilullah Khalili

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Khalilullah Khalili or Ustad Khalilullah Khalili ( Persian استاد خلیل الله خلیلی; * 1907 in Kabul ; † 1987 in Islamabad ) was a Persian-speaking poet , university professor and diplomat from Afghanistan . His father, Mirzā Mohammed Hussein Khan , was finance minister under King Habibullah Khan . His mother was the daughter of Abdul Qādir Khān , the then governor of Kohistan .

He lived and attended school in Kabul until he was eleven years old. His father was arrested and expelled from Kabul. He studied classical literature . In the early 1940s he succeeded his uncle, who had been elected deputy prime minister in Kabul . His stay in Kabul did not last long. In 1945 the Safis from Kohistan rebelled , who at that time administered Kabul, Parvan, Panjsher, Kapisa and Logar. His two uncles and nephew were arrested. Khalili went into exile in Kandahar , where he began to write poetry. In the 1950s he returned to Kabul, where he became Minister of Culture and began to work as a professor at the University of Kabul . He learned Arabic in the 1960s to 1970s and became ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Iraq . From 1951 to 1953 he was Minister for Press and Information. After the coup in April 1978, he first fled to Germany. He later lived in the United States . In the late 1980s he moved to Islamabad , Pakistan . He was buried in Peshawar next to the grave of the Pashtun poet Rahman Baba .

Khalili was a tireless writer. He published 35 volumes of poetry, including his two best-known works: "Aškḥā Wa Ḫūnhā" ("Tears and Blood") and "Ayyār-e az Ḫorāsān" ("The Hero from Khorasan "). The latter is a biography and praise of Habibullah Kalakâni .