Sayed Qassem Rishtya

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Sayed Qassem Rishtya (also Qassem Reshtia ; * 1913 in Kabul , † 1998 in Geneva ) was an Afghan writer , politician and diplomat .

Life

After graduating from the French Isteqlal Lycée, he studied at the financial institute in Kabul. He then worked for various magazines in Kabul and became director of Radio Afghanistan and director of the Bakhtar agency . From 1950 to the early 1960s, Sayed Qassem Rishtya was Minister of Finance; from 1964 to 1965 Minister for Information and Culture. As a diplomat he was ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1960 to 1962 and to Egypt from 1962 to 1963 . He was also a delegate at the Bandung Conference and at the Conference of the Non-Aligned States in Belgrade (1961) and Cairo (1965).

After the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan, he worked as an ambassador to Japan in 1973 . Shortly after his return he withdrew from his public life and devoted himself to historical research as well as the writing of his memoirs and publication of the work Afghanistan in the XIXth century , which was awarded the national prize as the most important historical work. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he fled to Geneva, where he died at the age of 85.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Reshtia, Qassem" ( Memento of 12 February 2006 at the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Rishtya, Sayed Qassem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan writer, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul
DATE OF DEATH 1998
Place of death Geneva