Me Akbar Khyber

Mir Akbar Khyber , also Khaibar (born January 11, 1925 , † April 17, 1978 ) was an Afghan politician . He was chairman of the Parcham faction of the People's Democratic Party (DVPA) . He was considered one of the most important figures of communism in Afghanistan.

Life

In 1947 he completed his military training at the university (Harbi Pohantun). In 1950 he was arrested for his revolutionary activities. He later worked in the Ministry of Education. In 1965 he was involved in an uprising in the Paktia province and was therefore released. After returning to Kabul he was editor of the party newspaper of the same name of the communist wing Parcham and oversaw the Parchams recruitment program in the Afghan army. On April 17, 1978, he was murdered in front of his home.

Daoud's regime tried to blame Khyber's death on the Hizb-i Islāmī, led by Hekmatyar . Only Muhammad Taraki , the founder of the DVPA, was like a large part of the Kabul intelligentsia of the opinion that the government itself was responsible for this. According to the American historian and Afghanistan specialist Louis Dupree , Interior Minister Nuristani, a radical anti-communist, ordered the murder. Contradicting this, various sources, including the Parchamis Babrak Karmal and Anahita Ratebzad , state that the attack was instigated by Hafizullah Amin , a leader of the rival Leninist Khalq faction. Daoud's confidante, Abdul Samad Ghaus, implied a rivalry between Amin and Khyber as both tried to infiltrate the military with their respective factions. Khyber's efforts to reunite Khalq and Parcham within the military have, according to communist sources, undermined Amin's position of power.