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Biography of Mahmud Tarzi, afghan journalist and intellectual.
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Biography of Mahmud Tarzi
Mahmud Tarzi was born in Ghazni on August 23, 1965. He was the son of Ghulam
Muhammad Tarzi. After the Second Anglo-Afghan war, and the rise of Amir Abdul
Rahman Khan, he was forced to accompany his father into exile and was educated
in India and in Ottoman empire. After the death of Amir Abdul Rahman Khan,
Mahmud Tarzi who was living in Damascus (1886-1900), chose to travel back to his
hometown in Afghanistan in the early years of twentieth century (1902) to serve his
nation as a writer, poet and translator. As journalist, he founded and published
Seraj Ul-Akhbar (translated as « Torch of the newspaper ») from 1911 to 1918. His
poetic, patriotic and visionary writings exemplify Afghan's love for freedom and
independence.
During the reign of King Amanullah, Tarzi served as foreign
minister (1919-22) and headed the Afghan delegation at the peace
conferences at Mussoorie (1920) and Kabul (1921). He negociated the treaty of full
independence (Istiqlal) of Afghanistan. He was the first Afghan
minister at Paris from 1922 to 1924, and again foreign minister from 1924 to 1927.
After tribal revolts, Tarzi and his family were forced to take refuge in Turkey in
1929. He died in 1933 and was buried in Istanbul.
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