Hatef Mokhtar

Hatef Mokhtar was born on the 11^th May 1962. He is an author from Afghanistan and is currently residing in Norway and he is also a citizen of Norway. He is the founder and the Editor-In-Chief of The Oslo Time and he is also a human right activist. He writes for a good number of newspapers and magazines like the KL-Today, Eracity, the Daily Sun, the Malaysia Today, Burma Digest, Haama Daily, Groruddalen no. he works towards the achievement of the Press Freedom and freedom of speech and he is for the promotion of peace also. Hatef is a political analyst and a public speaker. Even though he is a political analyst on Afghanistan, he as well specializes in the issues of human right in the world and the freedom of expression to be specific. Hatef is of the Durrani clan of Pashtun. He is the originator and the chairman of the Armed for the Quill and also the Organization for Global Peace.

 

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Early Life and Education

Hatef was born on the 11^th May in the year 1962 at Mazar-i-Sharif in the Balkh region of Afghanistan to a Pashtun family from the Durrani clan. His father, Gul Maulawi Mohammad Khan was a religious student. As he was a critic of the communist era n the country, Khan was arrested by the police under the leadership of Noor Mohammad taraki. Imprisoned at the Pul-e-Charkhi prison that is in Kabul, he was killed during the leadership of the next communist president of the country, Hafizullah Amin. After that Hatef and his family were forced out of the country and they took refuge in Pakistan. He went to Balkh University in Afghanistan and there he got a degree in political science. He can speak Norwegian and is good in the English language as well as the Hindi, Pashto, Dari, Urdu and Persian.

Organization and Associations

In the year 2007, Hatef founded an organization that is known as Global Peace. The mission of the organization is to create awareness on the dictatorial eras on a global platform. In the year 2010, he founded the Armed for the Quil, and this was to support the freedom of the press and the freedom of expression. This organization coordinates with more than 100 journalists in its works toward promoting human rights as well as democracy and to circulate awareness against extremism and dictatorial leadership. In the year 2011, he founded The Oslo Time, which is an online Newspaper that is available in English language.

Books and Writings

Hatef translated a biography of Kabir Stori, a Pashto poet into English language. He also contributes articles to the Newspapers and magazines. He often writes for five blogs that focus on the human right and the freedom of expression. He is an o=author of two book; A Yoik for Anna and The red Wrath.

The Red Wrath is his second book that was bublished in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. Hatef has dedicated the book to the people of his country, Afghanistan. The underlying theme that is behind this book is ‘A Bird called Destiny’. In Norway, Asif, the protagonist looks back at the experiences of Hatef in Afghanistan. Even though he is born and raised there, he was forced to leave his country because of the bad political situation of his country. Not just that, he was affected personally; his dad died in the prison after he was detained and never saw his family again, and then the trial and tribulation of a young man who was growing into adolescent age started. Asif is of the opinion that destiny has a part role to play in the life of an individual.

 The book, The Red Wrath was recently added to the National Library of Australia.

Hatef writes his poetry in the Persian language as well as Pashto and the English language. He has made some acknowledged content in the latest edition of the Persian poetry book called Nabas e Darakht.

Present Life

In the year 2001, Hatef relocated to Norway as a political asylum seeker in the wake of the civil war of Afghanistan followed by the Taliban leadership. It was in Norway that he freely expressed his opinion through his writings. He serves toward the human right concern like the freedom of expression and speech, freedom of education for women and the promotion of peace, democracy, multiculturalism and poetry, eradication of racism and the prevention of genocide. He is a constant public speaker and has been opposing dictatorship and communism.

Award and Honors

In the year 2007, Hatef was appointed as the Global Peace Ambassador by the Universal Peace Federation.

He is the person that got the 2013 Readers’ favorite Bronze Medal, a contest that is organized by Readers’ favorite.

Controversies

Hatef has been talking about his stance on the human-right abuse in several part of the world. Because of that, he has been stopped from travelling to countries like Syria and the North korea by the regimes of the countries.