Sherzaman Taizi
Sherzaman Taizi, Pashto: شېر زمان طايزي, ( born November 3, 1931 in Pabbi, Nowshera District, North-West Frontier Province, British India) is a Pashtun writer and former member of the Pakistani intelligence service.
Life
Taizi worked from 1949 to 1954 in the Royal Army Service Corps as an employee, then he was from 1954 to 1977 when Pakistani intelligence from 1979 to 1980 as a liaison officer for Afghan refugees in Peshawar. During his Secret Service career, he was more than 15 years on the road in the tribal areas and has visited each of the relevant offices. More than seven years he worked in the Pakistani embassy in Kabul.
From 1980 to 1991 he worked for the UNHCR as a program director. From 1991 to 1995 he was deputy editor of the daily Frontier Post, Peshawar and from 1996 to 1997, an educational project of the BBC in Peshawar editor of the trilingual magazine New Home New Life. He is currently Vice President of an organization to support women in tribal areas and also editor of the bilingual quarterly magazine Neway Zhwand ( New Life ) this organization.
He earned a Master of Arts in Pashto and completed a PhD degree at the University of Peshawar. His English-language doctoral thesis dealt with the " Saur Revolution ( 1978) - the Communist Revolution, which took place in April 1978 ."
Literary significance
In Pashtun literature circles Taizi is also known by his pseudonym Ghamzhan he in favor of his family name Taizi already no longer in use, however. Taizis research contributions in English, especially on Afghan affairs are internationally recognized. The scientific center of the region, the University of Peshawar, considered his membership as profit and his contributions over Pashtun literature, to the knowledge of Afghanistan as well as his numerous writings in Pashto, Urdu and English are very welcome.
A biography Taizis was presented in 2000 by Khurshid Iqbal Khattatk.
Works (selection)
Published in Pashto works
- Warsho ( poems)
- Soma ( poems)
- Gulpana ( Drama )
- Shpelae ( short stories )
- Amanat (novel)
- Rahman Koroona (novel)
- Ghunday (novel)
- Wade o 'n ' sho (novel)
- Nara Zheba ( scientific work in Pashto )
- Novel: Hunan au Safar ( scientific work on the properties of novels )
- Since Pukhto Leekdod: Yao Sarsari Jaj ( Scientific work in Pashto (script ) )
- Suqut -e- Afghanistan ( translation from English to Pashto - The case of Afghanistan Samad Ghaus )
Published in the English language works
- Polar Bear (Translation of poems by Pashtun Mohammad Hasham Zamani )
- The Pukhtun ' Unity (Translation from the published in Pashto work of Mohammad Afzal Khan Qami Wahdat, a former minister)
- Abad Khan: The Lost Ring of the Chain ( Translation from Urdu by Anwar Khan Deewana )
- Rahman Baba: the Outstanding Painter of Thoughts
- The Saur Revolution ( scientific work on the Communist Revolution of 1978 in Afghanistan)
- Afghanistan: From Najib to Mojaddedi (two volumes)
- Afghanistan: A Clash of Interests,
- Afghanistan: Two Governments and Three Capitals
- Afghanistan: Drug Menace in Central Asia,
- Afghanistan: Land Mine Menace in Afghanistan
- Bare -foot in Coarse Clothes ( Translation from Dari; Dr. Mohammad Hasan Sharq, former Prime Minister of Afghanistan )
- Bacha Khan in Afghanistan
- Terrorist Attacks in the U.S. and U.S. Attack on Afghanistan.
- Secret Plans and Open Faces ( Translation from Pashto; Godfather Tautiye, Barbande Tsere Hekmatyar )
- Dispute in between Iran and Afghanistan on the issue of Hirmand River ( translation from Persian: by Gholam Reza Fakhari, Tehran, 1993)
- Nights in Kabul ( Translation from Dari by General Umarzai )
- Causes of the Fall of the Islamic State of Afghanistan under Ustad Rabbani in Kabul ( Translation from Dari: Syed ' Allam -ud -Din Atseer )
- General Elections in Afghanistan in 2005.
Published in Pashto and English works
- The Mother Tongue ( Moranae Zheba ).
- Author
- Literature ( Pashto )
- Literature ( Afghanistan)
- Pashtun
- Born in 1931
- Man