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 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 19^th 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.