Abdul Rahman Pazhwak (also known as Abdur Rahman Pazhwak or Abdurrahman Pazhwak) (born 1919 in Ghazni) was an Afghan poet and diplomat. He was educated in Afghanistan and started out his career as a journalist, but eventually joined the foreign ministry. During the 1950s he became ambassador to the United Nations, and served as president of the UN General Assembly from 1966 to 1967. During the early 1970s he served for short periods as Afghan ambassador to West Germany and India. In 1976 he became ambassador to the United Kingdom. He served in that position until the 1978 communist coup. He then returned to Afghanistan and was put under house arrest. He was allowed to leave for medical treatment in 1982. He received asylum in the United States, where he lived until 1991 when he moved to Peshawar, Pakistan. It is unclear what has happened to him since, though several sources report that he died sometime during the 1990s. 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Minaret, July 2001 Ghazni is a city in central Afghanistan, situated on a plateau at 7280 feet above sea level. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... PeshÄwar (known as Purushapura in Sanskrit, Pai-khawar in Pashto) is a city in Pakistans North-West Frontier Province (pop. ...
Rahman belonged to the Ghoriah Khel clan or sub-division, of the Mohmand tribe of the Afghans, and dwelt in the village of Hazar-Khani in the tapah or district of the Mohmands, one of the five divisions of the province of Peshawar.
Rahman appears to have been in the habit of giving the copies of his poems, as he composed them, from time to time, to his particular friends, which they, unknown to each other, took care to collect and preserve, for the express purpose of making a collection of them after the author’s death.
Some descendants of Rahman, on his daughter’s side, dwell at present in the little hamlet of Deh-i-Bahadur (the Hamlet of the Brave), in the Mohmand district; but the descendants on the side of his only son have long been extinct.
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