Mohammad Daud Miraki

Mohammad Daud Miraki is a writer, a politician and an activist from Afghanistan.

 

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Early Life

Daud was born on the January 23^rd, 1967 in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is of the Sulaimankhail tribe of Maidan Wardak region. He was just 5 when his father, General Ghulan Sediq Miraki was selected as the Intelligence Chief of South and the south-western Afghanistan, located in Kandahar. He moved back to Kabul with his father, and there they stayed for some years. Running away from the Soviet occupation in the year 1982, Daud and his family relocated and took refuge in Peshawar in Pakistan. Subsequently, he relocated to Germany in the year 1983 and stayed there for just a year. in the year 1984, he together with the gfamily relocated to Chicago in the United States.

Education

Daud studied up to grade 6 in primary school that is in Kandahar. After he had finished his grade 6 in Kandahar, his family went back to Kabul and there he completed his grade 7 and grade 8. He finished his grade 9 at the Syed Jamaludin Afghan High School in Peshawar. He received his high school diploma from the Senn High School in May 1986 in Chicago.

Daud was given an admission to study biology in the University of Illinois in Chicago. Meanwhile, he changed his main Political science due to his intentions to contribute to the good of the country. In the year 1992, he finished with a BA in Political Science.

Daud got two Master’s degrees; his 1^st Master’s degree was a political science specialization in the International Relations that he finished in the year 1993. His 2^nd master’s degree was in the Middle Eastern Studies, specialization in the conflict Resolution that he got in the year 1996. In the year 2000, he finished his Ph.D in Public Policy Analysis.

Work Life

Daud taught management and policy courses at the Chicago State University for more than three years.

He began a Non-for-profit organization, Afghan DU and Recovery Fund to create awareness and funds to start some DU clean-up projects, transfer villagers from bombed villages and give them clean water and some other basic amenities for sustainability.

Academic Work

Daud has written a number of reports and a book.  And they include;

• Afghanistan after Democracy
• The Anatomy of America's Defeat in Afghanistan (April 2010).

Political View

Daud is known to be an ultra-nationalist Afghan and majority of his election goals were based on giving ethnic Pashtuns and the language of Pashto more rights. According to Daud, the Pashtuns of the country consist of about 65% of the total population of the country. As such, Pashto should be made the official and the first language of the state while Persian should be the second language of the country. He also is a good supporter of the removal of the Durand Line and creation of bigger nation.