Gul Pacha Ulfat
Gul Pacha Ulfat was born in the year 1909 in Qarghavi district of Laghman region of Afghanistan. Gul was the prominent poet and author who...
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Gul Pacha Ulfat was
born in the year 1909 in Qarghavi district of Laghman region of Afghanistan.
Gul was the prominent poet and author whose works were produced in Pashto
language.
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Early Life
Gul Pacha Ulfat, the
sone of nMeer Sayed Pacha was born in the year 1909. He is from the village of
Aziz Khan Kats, Qarghavi district of Laghman region of the country. After
gaining good knowledge of the Arabic religion, Gul studied Sarf, Nahw, Mantiq,
Tafseer and Hadith from the local Islamic students.
Work Life
When he finished his
religious education and his private studies in the year 1935, Gul was selected
as a clerk in the national Anis Newspaper. In the year 1949 and in the year
1952, he was elected to be a member of the National Assembly by the people of
Jalalabad, the capital city of Nangarhar region of the country and the people
of Qarghayi district of Laghman region of the country. Besides, he is the
founder of Wolas, which is a national weekly in the year 1951. He worked as the
editor in chief of the Wolas Weekly until the end part of the year 1953.
Pacha attended the
Grand Assembly session in the year 1955; he represented the people of
Jalalabad. In the year 1956, Pacha was selected to be the president of the
Pashto Academy that is locally known as Pashto Tolana. At the same time, he
worked as a professor of Pashto language and literature in the University of
Kabul, Faculty of Literature and the Faculty of Law and Political Science. He
resigned from the ministerial post he was handling and was elected to the
National Assembly by the people of Jalalabad in the year 1964. He went into
retirement at the end of the term.
Pacha, together with
Ghulam Hassan Safi, Ghulam Mohayuddin Zurmulwal, Abur Raof
Benawa, Abdul Hadi Tokhay, Mohammad Rasul Pashtun, Fayz Mohammad Angar,
Qiamuddin Khadem, Nur Mohammad Taraki and some others were the founding fathers
of the Political Movement of the Afghanistan Weesh Zalmyan (Awakened Youth) in
the year 1947.
Academic Contribution
After he had retired,
Pacha kept on with his contribution to the enrichment of the Pashto Literature
and he was doing this as a poet and as a writer and he did this until the last
moment of his life. He authored many books about religious, political, ethical
as well as social matter, in verse and in prose forms in supplementation of
many articles that he has written. Some of the book he wrote are yet to be
published. Pacha had been given some medals, which are; Abu
Ali Sina, Khushhal Khan, Education and the Star medals.
Death
Gul Pacha spent the
last part of his life in his village in the Laghman region of the country. He
died on the 19th December, 1977 at the age of 67. He died of heart
failure. He was buried in the graveyard that belongs to the family in the same
village.
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